Melissa Mathison
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Emerging from a Los Angeles family tied to journalism and culinary publishing, she abandoned her studies at UC Berkeley after Francis Ford Coppola hired her as an assistant on The Godfather Part II, an experience that launched her screenwriting path. Her adaptation of The Black Stallion attracted Steven Spielberg, leading to a collaboration on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, for which she received the…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
