Loraine Despres

Loraine Despres
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • screenwriter
NationalityAmerican
Alma materNorthwestern University
SpouseCarleton Eastlake
Children1

Loraine Despres is an American novelist and screenwriter. Her novels The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc (2002) and The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell (2005) were Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club featured selections. Despres wrote episodes for many top network TV shows including The Highlander, The Equalizer, Knots Landing and Dynasty. Most famously, she wrote the Who shot J.R.? episode of Dallas.[1]