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Esta Alice Spalding is a Canadian author, screenwriter and poet who won the Pat Lowther Award in 2000 for ''Lost August''. ==Biography== Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Phillip Spalding and Linda Spalding, she grew up in Hawaii and currently resides in Venice, California. In 1997, Spalding relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she worked as an executive story editor and writer on CBC's prime-time drama ''Da Vinci's Inquest''. She also worked as a writer and executive story editor on all three seasons of ''The Eleventh Hour'', a prime-time drama about investigative journalists on CTV. Both series were highly critically acclaimed and repeatedly won Gemini awards for Best Series. Spalding adapted Barbara Gowdy's novel ''Falling Angels'' into a 2003 feature film that was directed by Scott Smith. The movie premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and played at Sundance Film Festival, and garnered many awards and nominations, including a Genie nod for Best Writing for Spalding. That year, she also co-wrote (with Deepa Mehta) the script adaptation of Carol Shields' ''Republic of Love'', which Mehta directed. Her 2007 original movie of the week, ''In God's Country'' broke records for viewership on CTV. She and Tassie Cameron co-wrote the script for ''Would Be Kings'', a movie of the week that premiered on CTV in 2008 to great critical acclaim and for which they were nominated for the Gemini award for Best Writing. Most recently, she has been a writer and producing consultant on ''Flashpoint, Rookie Blue, Being Erica, Bomb Girls ''and ''Saving Hope'', for which she was nominated for a Writers Guild Award. In 2013, she was a writer and co-producer on FX's ''The Bridge ''. Spalding and her mother Linda Spalding co-wrote a novel, ''Mere'', which was published in 2001. She is a contributing editor to the literary magazine ''Brick''. She has a B.A from University of Chicago and an M.A. from Stanford University. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Esta Spalding」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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