Lynn Kear

Portrait of a woman smiling off-camera as she sits at a desk with a typewriter and rotary phone.
Kear at home in her office

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.

News clipping of "Streator native publishes crime novel."
Review and article about Kear’s novel “Relative Innocence”, Q181-15-004a
First page of typed synopsis of "Agnes Moorehead - The Lavendar Lady" by Quint Benedetti, with handwritten notes in pink.
Rough draft of the Lavender Lady, Q181-011-001-001a