Anna Thomas

Anna Thomas (born July 12, 1948) is a German-born American author, screenwriter, and film producer. She is best known as the author of the 1972 vegetarian cookbook, The Vegetarian Epicure, which contributed to the rise of the vegetarian movement of the 1970s. She is currently Discipline Head of the Screenwriting department at the American Film Institute.[1]

Anna Thomas
Born (1948-07-12) July 12, 1948
Stuttgart, Germany
Occupations
  • Screenwriter
  • film producer
  • Cookbook author
Notable workThe Vegetarian Epicure (1972)

Anna Thomas wrote her first cookbook The Vegetarian Epicure (1972) while still a film student at UCLA. It had a strong impact on the natural foods movement within the American counterculture.[2][3]

Her master's thesis film, a dramatic feature titled The Haunting of M, a turn of the century ghost story, shot in Scotland. It was well received by film critics and shown at festivals and art houses.[4]

Cookbooks

Vegetarian

  • The Vegetarian Epicure Alfred A. Knopf, 1972, 305 pages. ISBN 0-394-71784-8.
  • The Vegetarian Epicure, Book Two Alfred A. Knopf, 1978, 401 pages. ISBN 0-394-73415-7.
  • The New Vegetarian Epicure Alfred A. Knopf, 1996, 450 pages. ISBN 0-679-76588-3.

Vegetarian and Vegan

  • Love Soup W. W. Norton & Company, 2009, 528 pages. ISBN 978-0-393-33257-5.
  • Vegan Vegetarian Omnivore: Dinner for Everyone at the Table. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, 496 pages. ISBN 978-0393083019.

Screenwriting filmography

Awards and nominations

Nominated

Won

References
  1. AFI faculty biographical information page.
  2. Kauffman, Jonathan (2018). Hippie Food: How Back-To-The-Landers, Longhair, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat. Harper Collins. ISBN 9780062437303.
  3. Belasco, Warren (2007). Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on The Food Industry. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0801473296.
  4. Ebert, Roger Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Chicago Sun-Times, film article, December 15, 1983.
  5. James Beard Foundation Nomination
  6. IMDB Awards and Nominations
  7. James Beard Foundation Award
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