Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter and producer (died 2015)

Melissa Mathison

American screenwriter (1950–2015)

Melissa Marie Mathison was an American film and television screenwriter and an activist for the Tibetan independence movement. She was best known for writing the screenplays for the films The Black Stallion (1979) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the latter of which earned…