Judith Paige Mitchell

Judith Paige Mitchell (November 24, 1932 – February 10, 2010) was a television writer, executive producer and novelist.

Biography

Judith Paige Segel was born in New Orleans. Her parents were George Jacob Segel (1906–1993) and Esther (née Finerosky) (1908–1995). She started her career as a novelist, her subjects including integration and civil rights. She moved to Los Angeles in 1965 after divorcing her first husband Alvin Binder, a civil rights attorney in Jackson, Mississippi, and also worked in television as a writer and producer, with many topics focused on true crime. Mitchell died of cancer in Los Angeles on February 10, 2010, survived by her husband and well-known Los Angeles publisher Jeremy Tarcher and three children.

Literary credits

• A Wilderness of Monkeys (1965)
• Love is Not a Safe Country (1968)
• The Mayfly (1971)
• The Covenant, a Novel (1973)
• Act of Love (1976) (adapted into 1980 television movie of the same name)
• Wild Seed (1982)

Teleplay credits

• Desperate for Love (1989)
• ' (1994)
• Young at Heart (1995 TV movie) (1995)
• Glory, Glory (1998)