Robin Green
{{short description|American writer and producer}}
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| birth_place = Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
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| alma_mater = Brown University (B.A.)
Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA)
| spouse = Mitchell Burgess
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Robin Green (born July 31, 1945) is an American writer and producer. She was a writer and executive producer on the HBO series The Sopranos and was the co-creator and executive producer of the CBS series Blue Bloods.{{Cite book|title = Entertainment Awards: A Music, Cinema, Theatre and Broadcasting Guide, 1928 through 2003, 3d ed.|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=dOKoBQAAQBAJ&q=Robin%2520Green%2520the%2520sopranos%2520exec&pg=PA377|publisher = McFarland|date = October 28, 2004|isbn = 9781476608068|first = Don|last = Franks}}{{cite web |title=Robin Green |url=https://www.littlebrown.com/contributor/robin-green/ |website=Little, Brown and Company |access-date=13 March 2023 |date=27 February 2018}} In the 1970s, Green was a writer for Rolling Stone.
Biography
A Rhode Island native,{{cite web |url=http://wewantedtobewriters.com/our-authors/robin-green/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808013530/http://wewantedtobewriters.com/our-authors/robin-green/ |archive-date=August 8, 2012 |title=Robin Green}} Robin Green earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in American literature from Pembroke College in Brown University, and a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Green is Jewish.{{cite news|title=Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/content/f73848fa-b501-11e8-a1d8-15c2dd1280ff|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.ft.com|date=September 14, 2018 }}
In 1968, Green worked as Marvel Comics' secretary-receptionist and "Gal Friday" for editor-in-chief Stan Lee.Green, Robin, [http://www.reocities.com/area51/Chamber/8346/rs91.facefront.1.html "Face Front! Clap Your Hands, You're on the Winning Team!"], Rolling Stone #91, September 16, 1971, via "Green Skin's Grab-Bag" (fan site) ([https://web.archive.org/web/20101007234130/http://www.reocities.com/area51/Chamber/8346/rs91.facefront.1.html Archive.org archive]): "It was three ago that I went to work at Marvel Comics. I replaced Flo
After moving on from Marvel she spent time as a magazine journalist in such publications as Rolling Stone.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/contributor/robin-green|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=June 14, 2015|title=Robin Green}}
Upon entering the television industry as a writer, Green wrote and produced for such series as The Sopranos, Northern Exposure, A Year in the Life and Almost Grown, and wrote the Showtime TV movie Critical Choices.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3667664/The-Sopranos-no-more-Mr-Wiseguy.html|website=The Telegraph|access-date=June 14, 2015|title= The Sopranos|date=September 2007 }}{{cite news |title=Distinguished Alumni Award: Robin L. Green, 77MFA |url=https://www.foriowa.org/daa/daa-profile.php?namer=true&profileid=507 |access-date=13 March 2023 |publisher=The University of Iowa Center for Advancement |language=en}}
In 2010, Green worked as an executive consultant and writer on the second season of police drama Southland.
In August 2018 Little Brown and Company published Green's memoir, The Only Girl: My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone.{{cite web|url=https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/the-only-girl-my-life-and-times-on-the-masthead-of-rolling-stone/|title=Book Marks reviews of The Only Girl: My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone by Robin Green Book Marks|website=bookmarks.reviews|language=en-US|access-date=2018-09-01}}
Green is married to Sopranos co-writer Mitchell Burgess. Together, they created the CBS police procedural Blue Bloods, which premiered in 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/interviews/2011/02/18/interview-blue-bloods-executive-producers-leonard-goldberg-and-robin-green-409005/20110218_bluebloods/ |title=Interview: "Blue Bloods" Executive Producers Leonard Goldberg & Robin Green |publisher=TheFutonCritic.com |date= |accessdate=2022-05-05}}{{cite web|author=Josef Adalian |url=http://www.vulture.com/2010/05/the_sopranos_blue_bloods_david.html |title=Vulture Exclusive: CBS Finds Itself in the Middle of an Old Sopranos Family Feud |publisher=Vulture.com |date=2010-05-26 |accessdate=2022-05-05}}
Works
- {{cite book |last1=Green |first1=Robin |title=The Only Girl: My Life and Times on the Masthead of Rolling Stone |date=21 August 2018 |publisher=Little, Brown |isbn=978-0-316-44005-9 |language=en}}
Awards
Green won an Emmy Award for her work on the CBS series Northern Exposure. She was awarded Emmys for Best Writing of a Drama Series for episodes of The Sopranos in 2001 and 2003, as well as an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series in 2004. In addition, she won two Peabody Awards and a Golden Globe Award for the series.
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External links
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Category:Primetime Emmy Award winners