Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated screenwriter Robin Swicord was well known in Hollywood for her literary adaptations and for deftly translating multi-dimensional female characters and female-oriented stories successfully onto the movie screen. Her first notoriety came with “Little Women” (1994), and she was thereafter tapped to pen comedies and dramas that centered on female characters (“Matilda,” 1996), non-traditional families (“The Perez Family,” 1995) and sometimes both, as with the internationally acclaimed “Memoirs of Geisha” (2005). Her
