Sara Davidson (born 1943) is an American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. She is the author of the best-selling Loose Change. It was adapted as a television mini-series. In addition, she has written other series and served as producer.
Davidson grew up in California and graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1960. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. She also attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and started her writing career as a journalist.
Davidson's first job was as a reporter with the Boston Globe. She has also written for magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Harper's Magazine, Life, McCall's, Ms., The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, O, The Oprah Magazine, Ramparts and Rolling Stone.
In 1968, she was briefly married to Jonathan Schwartz, a popular-music radio deejay in New York City. She later married again, to a Los Angeles businessman. They had a son and a daughter together, but were divorced.
In the 1990s she had an affair with "real-life cowboy" Richard Goff. Their relationship inspired her largely autobiographical novel Cowboy(1999).
Davidson's novel Loose Change (1977) was adapted for a mini-series. In addition, she wrote and produced a number of television series. She created the series Jack and Mike (1986), and HeartBeat (1988). She was the co-executive producer for Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.