- Graduated from the University of Michigan.
- Graduate of Milan High School, Class of 1961, Milan, MI.
- A founding member of The Free Southern Theater.
- She wrote the song "Can We Pretend" as well as five scripts for In the Heat of the Night, and co-wrote a sixth with Carroll O'Connor; her novel "Freshwater Road" was selected as one of the best books of 2005 by several major newspapers.
- In 1964 she moved to Mississippi to perform with the Free Southern Theater, where she met and married co-founder Gil Moses; the company was a target of the Ku Klux Klan.
- Enrolled in the Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California as a full-time undergraduate, earned a theater degree in 1987 and made the dean's list.
- Her first aspiration was to become a lawyer, à la Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind.
- After joining New York City's Negro Ensemble Company in 1969, she was spotted by casting agents for her first TV series that began in the same year.
- She flatly refused to consider black exploitation films.
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