Biography

Connie Martinson was born on April 11, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She was a producer and writer, known for Steve Erickson - These Dreams of You (2012) and Connie Martinson Talks Books (1980). She was married to Leslie H. Martinson. She died on March 9, 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

She earned a B.A. from Wellesley College, Massachusetts, in 1953, where she was awarded the Davenport Prize for Speech and Literature.

She worked as an editor for "Writer" magazine in Boston before moving to Los Angeles with her husband, Leslie H. Martinson.

Writer and TV personality.

A member of the National Book Critics Council, she writes a column for the Beverly Hills Courtier.

Prior to parlaying her love of literature into a self-financed TV series, Connie Martinson Talks Books (1980), she was involved in public relations for the Con Foundation and taught at UCLA and the University of Judaism.