Joan Micklin Silver

(1935- ) born at Omaha. Film director and producer, writer, one of the first women to become an established film director after the feminist movement originated in the 1960s and early 1970s, she created a body of more than 15 works but remained underrated because her films were made with small budgets; her 1975 film "Hester Street" was nominated as best screenplay by Writers Guild of America. Consult Newsweek, May 9, 1977, p. 108 and Lincoln Journal Star, June 24, 1984, p. TV-12 and Contemporary Authors, Vol 121 (Gale, 1987) 392-395 and Women Filmmakers & Their Films (St. James Press, 1998) 388-390.

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