Adriana Trigiani

Adriana Trigiani is the bestselling author of twenty books, including the instant New York Times bestseller All the Stars in the Heavens, the blockbuster epic The Shoemaker's Wife; the Big Stone Gap series; Tony's Wife; Lucia, Lucia; the Valentine series; the Viola series for young adults and the bestselling memoir Don't Sing at the Table. Trigiani directed the feature film Then Came You (2020) , starring Craig Ferguson and Kathie Lee Gifford, filmed on location in Scotland. Her screen adaptation of Very Valentine (2019) debuted on Lifetime television in June 2019. Trigiani wrote and directed the major motion picture Big Stone Gap (2014), based on her debut novel and filmed entirely on location in her Virginia hometown. She is the award-winning filmmaker of the documentary Queens of the Big Time (1996). She was an award-winning writer/producer of The Cosby Show (1984) and A Different World (1987) and show runner and executive producer of CityKids (1993).