Katherine Lawrence
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Katherine Lawrence | |
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| Born | Katherine Selbert December 11, 1954 San Bernardino, California, U.S. |
| Died | March 25, 2004 (aged 49) |
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Katherine "Kathy" Lawrence (December 11, 1954 – March 25, 2004) was an American television series screenwriter and a short story science fiction and children's non-fiction educational books and video game writer.
Biography
[edit]Lawrence was born Katherine Selbert on December 11, 1954.[1] She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in the English language from the University of Washington in Seattle.
She began her writing career in 1985 on the series Dungeons & Dragons, billed as Kathy Selbert, the name which she would use through the rest of the decade. In 1990, she chose her writing name of Katherine Lawrence because of her love for T. E. Lawrence and Jerome Lawrence, and she used that name professionally for all her subsequent writing work. In 1996, Lawrence was nominated for Outstanding Script by the Writers Guild of America for "Icebound", an episode of Hypernauts, a live-action science fiction series.
Lawrence suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome. On March 27, 2004, her body was found at San Pedro River in Arizona, along with a suicide note. Lawrence was 49 years old, and her death was apparently caused by a self-inflicted gunshot wound.[1] Her ashes were spread over Mount Lemmon, which was her favorite area. In her farewell note, she wrote, "It's been a good life. I've vastly exceeded my teenage dreams. 'Tis sufficient."[1]
Writing credits
[edit]Television
[edit]- Dungeons & Dragons (1985)
- MoonDreamers (1986)
- Bionic Six (1987)
- Muppet Babies (1987)
- Beetlejuice (1991)
- Conan the Adventurer (1992-1993)
- Biker Mice from Mars (1994)
- Mighty Max (1994)
- Darkstalkers (1995)
- G.I. Joe Extreme (1996)
- Hypernauts (1996)
- Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders (1996)
- ReBoot (1998)
- Shadow Raiders (1998)
- Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends (1999)
- Kong: The Animated Series (2000)
- X-Men: Evolution (2000)
- Stargate Infinity (2002-2003)
- Legend of the Dragon (2006)
Film
[edit]- The Secret of Mulan (1998)
Video games
[edit]- Mario is Missing! (1993)
- Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb (1994)
- This Means War! (1995)
- Battle Vision (1997)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Katherine Lawrence: in memoriam: 1954-2004". Christy Marx - writer/narrative designer - scriptwriter - television writer - animation writer - game writer - game designer - comic book writer. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
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- 1954 births
- 2004 suicides
- 2004 deaths
- People with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
- American children's writers
- American education writers
- American fantasy writers
- American science fiction writers
- American television writers
- Suicides by firearm in Arizona
- University of Washington alumni
- Video game writers
- American women novelists
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American women writers
- American women science fiction and fantasy writers
- 20th-century American short story writers
- American women non-fiction writers
- American women television writers
- 20th-century American screenwriters
- Suicides by drowning in the United States
- 21st-century American women
- Women in the video game industry