Anna Thomas

Anna Thomas
Born (1948-07-12) July 12, 1948 (age 76)
Stuttgart, Germany
Occupations
  • Screenwriter
  • film producer
  • Cookbook author
Notable workThe Vegetarian Epicure (1972)
Spouse
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(m. 1975; div. 2006)​

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 sold a million copies[1] and contributed to the rise of the vegetarian movement of the 1970s.[1] She is currently discipline head of the Screenwriting department at the American Film Institute.[2]

Anna Thomas wrote 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.[3][4]

She made The Haunting of M, her thesis film for her master's degree, in Scotland. It was well received by film critics as well as shown at film festivals and art houses.[5]

Thomas married director and producer Gregory Nava in 1975.[6] They collaborated on film projects and had two sons Christopher (born 1984) and Teddy (born 1985). They divorced in 2006.

  1. ^ a b "Vegetarian cookbook author Anna Thomas ladles out ‘Love Soup’". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
  2. ^ AFI faculty biographical information page.
  3. ^ Kauffman, Jonathan (2018). Hippie Food: How Back-To-The-Landers, Longhair, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat. Harper Collins. ISBN 9780062437303.
  4. ^ Belasco, Warren (2007). Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on The Food Industry. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0801473296.
  5. ^ Ebert, Roger Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Chicago Sun-Times, film article, December 15, 1983.
  6. ^ Doll, Pancho (April 13, 1995). "Duo Shares the Ups and Downs of Cinema Life. Film director Gregory Nava and his wife, producer Anna Thomas, have learned to juggle personal lives and professional demands". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 15, 2024.