Biography
Carol Sobieski was an American screenwriter. Born Carol O'Brien on 16 March 1939 in Chicago, Illinois, she grew up in Texas and studied at Smith College before earning a master's degree in literature from Trinity College, Dublin.
Her screenwriting credits include the films Annie (1982), The Toy (1982), Winter People (1989) and Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), for which she shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay with Fannie Flagg. She also wrote extensively for television, including episodes of Family, for which she received a Humanitas Prize in 1978, and the teleplays Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking (1976) and Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991). Sobieski died on 4 November 1990 in Santa Monica, California.
