Anna Thomas

Anna Thomas
Born	(1948-07-12) July 12, 1948 (age 76) Stuttgart, Germany
Occupations	Screenwriter film producer Cookbook author
Notable work	The Vegetarian Epicure (1972)
Spouse	Gregory Nava ​ ​ (m. 1975;div. 2006)​

Anna Thomas (born July 12, 1948) is a German-born American author, screenwriter, and film producer. She is best known as the author of the 1972 vegetarian cookbook The Vegetarian Epicure , which sold a million copies ^[1] and contributed to the rise of the vegetarian movement of the 1970s. ^[1] She is currently discipline head of the Screenwriting department at the American Film Institute. ^[2]

Anna Thomas wrote The Vegetarian Epicure (1972) while still a film student at UCLA. It had a strong impact on the natural foods movement within the American counterculture. ^{[3] [4]}

She made The Haunting of M , her thesis film for her master's degree, in Scotland. It was well received by film critics as well as shown at film festivals and art houses. ^[5]

Thomas married director and producer Gregory Nava in 1975. ^[6] They collaborated on film projects and had two sons Christopher (born 1984) and Teddy (born 1985). They divorced in 2006.

Cookbooks

Vegetarian

• The Vegetarian Epicure , Alfred A. Knopf, 1972, 305 pages
• The Vegetarian Epicure, Book Two, Alfred A. Knopf, 1978, 401 pages
• The New Vegetarian Epicure, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996, 450 pages
• Vegetarian and Vegan'
• Love Soup, W.W. Norton & Company, 2009, 528 pages
• Vegan Vegetarian Omnivore: Dinner for Everyone at the Table, W.W. Norton & Company, 2016, 496 pages

Screenwriting filmography

• The Confessions of Amans (1977)
• The Haunting of M (1981), also produced
• The End of August (1982)
• El Norte (1983), also produced
• A Time of Destiny (1988), also produced
• My Family/Mi Familia (1995), also produced
• Frida (2002)

Awards and nominations

Nominated

• James Beard Foundation Award: Vegetarian, for The New Vegetarian Epicure: Menus for Families and Friends (1997) ^[7]
• Academy Awards: Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for El Norte (1983) ^[8]
• Writers Guild of America: Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for El Norte (1983) ^[8]

Won

• James Beard Foundation Award: Best Healthy Focus Cookbook for Love Soup (2010) ^[9]

References

1. "Vegetarian cookbook author Anna Thomas ladles out ‘Love Soup’". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
2. AFI faculty biographical information page.
3. Kauffman, Jonathan (2018). Hippie Food: How Back-To-The-Landers, Longhair, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat. Harper Collins. ISBN   9780062437303.
4. Belasco, Warren (2007). Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on The Food Industry. Cornell University Press. ISBN   978-0801473296.
5. Ebert, Roger Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine . Chicago Sun-Times, film article, December 15, 1983.
6. Doll, Pancho (April 13, 1995). "Duo Shares the Ups and Downs of Cinema Life. Film director Gregory Nava and his wife, producer Anna Thomas, have learned to juggle personal lives and professional demands". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 15, 2024.
7. James Beard Foundation Nomination
8. IMDB Awards and Nominations
9. James Beard Foundation Award

External links

• Anna Thomas at IMDb