Alice Arlen

Alice Albright Patterson was born in November 1940 to the journalist and former aviatrix Josephine Patterson Albright and her husband artist Ivan Albright. Brought up in Chicago and educated at Radcliffe College and the University of Columbia Alice returned to Chicago to work as a journalist and free-lance contributor to Channel 2, as well as writing a biography of her grandmother, pioneering newspaper publisher Cissy Patterson. First married to newspaper executive James Hoge by whom she had three children she subsequently married author Michael Arlen, moving with him to New York. In 1983 her old friend Nora Ephron contacted her to jointly write the screenplay for the film 'Silkwood' for which they received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations, since when she has worked sporadically in film, as well as continuing as an author.