Author Profile:  Marian Blair Hollingsworth

Writing has always been an important part of Marian Blair Hollingsworth's life.  That interest in writing is what drew Marian to a career in television news from 1976-1984 in San Diego, California.  She began as a news writer while completing a degree in Spanish and Journalism from San Diego State University.  Marian was a writer, then producer at the CBS affiliate, KFMB-TV, then at the NBC affiliate, KNSD.  She won a local Emmy Award in 1983 for Excellence in Broadcasting.  She credits her years in noisy, hectic newsrooms as good training for being able to write in a noisy, hectic house with four children.

Marian later combined her writing with her love of cooking in a monthly gourmet newsletter called Good Taste.  She was able to use her experience as a six-time Pillsbury Bake-Off contestant to come up with the recipes she featured in the newsletter.

Her news and cooking backgrounds were also valuable when Marian became a columnist for The Daily Californian with articles on parenting and restaurant reviews during the early 1990's.

Marian first experience as a playwright came when she co-authored Sherlock Homes And The Legacy Of Blood.  After that, Marian worked solo to create Johnny Brooke:  A Ghost Story.  That play, featuring a teenaged ghost, won the Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest for Pioneer Drama Service in 1999.  Another play, Harrison's Tornado written in 1998, deals with high school students who are trapped in their drama room when a tornado hits their school.

Marian has been married to Edward Hollingsworth, a high school drama teacher and actor, since 1984.  They live in La Mesa, California with their four theatre-loving children:  Trevor, Blair, Devon and Morgan.