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Elizabeth Guider is a longtime entertainment journalist and more recently a novelist who has lived and worked in Rome, Paris and London as well as in New York and Los Angeles. Born in the American South, she holds a doctorate in Renaissance Studies from New York University. During the late 1970s she was based in Rome where she taught English and American literature at the university level and where much of the action of her first novel, The Passionate Palazzo, takes place. While in Europe she worked as an editor for the International Daily News in Rome, a freelancer for several magazines and as an entertainment reporter for the showbiz newspaper Variety.
She also traveled widely, reporting on the politics affecting media from Eastern Europe Elizabeth Guider is a longtime entertainment journalist and more recently a novelist who has lived and worked in Rome, Paris and London as well as in New York and Los Angeles. Born in the American South, she holds a doctorate in Renaissance Studies from New York University. During the late 1970s she was based in Rome where she taught English and American literature at the university level and where much of the action of her first novel, The Passionate Palazzo, takes place. While in Europe she worked as an editor for the International Daily News in Rome, a freelancer for several magazines and as an entertainment reporter for the showbiz newspaper Variety.
She also traveled widely, reporting on the politics affecting media from Eastern Europe to Hong Kong as well as covering various film events and media trade shows in Cannes, Monte Carlo, Venice, Milan, Moscow and Berlin. She also served on several film festival juries, the International Emmys judging committee in NYC, and the Peabody Board. Over the years she has moderated a number of industry-sponsored panels and Q&A’s with entertainment executives, both Stateside and abroad, and won several media awards while working for the trade papers in Hollywood.
Back in the U. S. in the 1990s, she specialized on the burgeoning TV industry and eventually held top editor positions at Variety and latterly at The Hollywood Reporter, including executive editor at Variety and editor-in-chief at THR. Most recently, she has freelanced for the magazine World Screen as senior contributing editor.
Elizabeth divides her time between Los Angeles, where she freelances, and Vicksburg, Mississippi, where she grew up and where she focuses on her fiction. Her second novel, Milk and Honey on the Other Side, an inter-racial love story in the post-WWI period, is set largely in Vicksburg. Her third novel, Connections, a family saga that spans the last fifty years, takes the reader from Atlanta, to New York City and Hollywood, and eventually to South America. Her fourth, Our Long Love’s Day, is an unflinching yet sympathetic look at a divorce between two academics at a midwestern college who struggle to find new meaning in their lives. Her fifth novel, a contemporary love story set on the California Coast, came out in November 2022.
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