Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
| Linda Bloodworth-Thomason | |
|---|---|
| Born | Linda Joyce Bloodworth April 15, 1947 Poplar Bluff, Missouri, United States |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, Producer |
Linda Joyce Bloodworth-Thomason (born April 15, 1947) is an American writer and television producer.
Bloodworth-Thomason is best known for creating, writing, and producing several television series, most successfully with the series Designing Women. She and her husband, Harry Thomason, are also notable for their friendship with former President Bill Clinton and his family.
Linda Bloodworth was born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, the daughter of Ralph Bloodworth and his wife Claudia. She grew up in Missouri and graduated from Poplar Bluff High School. Linda and friends were the founders of the Alpha Pi Phi sorority. She went on to obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. In the early 1970s she moved to Los Angeles, California, where she taught English at Jordan High School, in the south Los Angeles suburb of Watts.
After her teaching stint concluded, Bloodworth went on to work for The Wall Street Journal in advertising. She then became a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily Journal. During this period, she also began working as a freelance writer in television.
Her early script-writing work included five episodes of M*A*S*H — of which one episode, "Hot Lips and Empty Arms," written with Mary Kay Place, was nominated for an Emmy Award — as well as scripts for Rhoda, the television version of Paper Moon, and the original pilot for One Day at a Time. She also wrote scripts for the short-lived sitcoms Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers and Filthy Rich.
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