Lynn Kear is an author and playwright and has lived in Atlanta for more than three decades. Her published works include biographies on Hollywood actresses, Kay Francis, Agnes Moorehead, Evelyn Brent, Laurette Taylor. She has also written crime novels and has won several screen writing awards. Her TV pilot adaptation of BLACK-HEARTED BITCH won a staged reading in September 2015 at the Hoover-Leppen Theatre in Chicago.