Stephanie Ericsson

Originally from San Francisco, Stephanie Ericsson began her writing career in television when she married Sandy Baron (comedian and actor best known for his role as Jack Klompus on Seinfeld). She worked for the award-wining screenwriter Lonne Elder III (Sounder) as a story editor on movies, including A Woman Called Moses (produced and starring Cicely Tyson) and as a screenwriter for the popular sitcom, Mork & Mindy (starring Robin Williams). Love and a second marriage with film director, Jim Hinton, of Wilson Griak Inc. took her to Minneapolis-Saint Paul where she wrote numerous docudramas and films and became a senior copywriter at the advertising agency Campbell-Mithun. In 1988, when she was pregnant with their first child, her husband, Jim, died suddenly of a heart attack. From the private journals she kept after he died, she wrote Companion Through The Darkness, Inner Dialogues on Grief which became an instant classic on grief from the moment it was published by HarperCollins in 1993.