Karen Mack

Karen Mack has produced many film and television productions including the Golden Globe, Christopher, and Emmy Award winning “ONE AGAINST THE WIND”, a Hallmark Hall of Fame Presentation starring Judy Davis, Sam Neill, and Kate Beckinsale. In addition to winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture for Television, the film also won Best Actress for Ms. Davis. The film also won two Emmy Awards and the New York Christopher Award.

For the past eight years, she has been Executive Producer of “A HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS,” a CBS Network Special. Artists who have appeared on the show include Dustin Hoffman, Bruce Willis, Jamie Foxx, Dennis Quaid, Morgan Freeman, Rene Russo, Gwen Stefani and Sheryl Crow.

Her first novel, Literacy and Longing in L.A. was on the LA Times Best Seller List for 15 weeks and won the 2006 Best Fiction Award from the California Bookseller’s Association. Her second novel, A Version of the Truth, also for Random House will be published December 2006.

Ms. Mack is a cum laude graduate of UCLA with a B.A. in Political Science and a Juris Doctorate from the UCLA School of Law.

Jennifer Kaufman

Jennifer Kaufman was a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times for 10 years. She is a two-time winner of the Penney-Missouri Journalism Award for Feature Writing and Spot News Reporting.

Ms. Kaufman spent 3 years as Bureau Chief for Fairchild Publications, Woman’s Wear Daily and W magazine in Milan and Rome. Prior to that, she worked for Fairchild Publications in New York covering business, film and features. She was formerly a staff reporter for the Baltimore News American and The Prince George’s County Sentinel in Bethesda, Maryland.

She has written feature stories for national publications and is currently a freelance writer living in Los Angeles. Her first novel, Literacy and Longing in LA was on the LA Times Best Seller List for 15 weeks and won the 2006 Best Fiction Award from the California Bookseller’s Association. Her second novel, A Version of the Truth, also for Random House will be published December 2006.

Ms. Kaufman attended Eastman School of Music and is a graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University School of Journalism. She is a flutist and pianist.

 

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