Maurer, Shari

Shari Maurer did her undergraduate work at Duke University, studying English and Film and Video. In graduate school at NYU, she realized that while her Dramatic Writing classmates were all writing serious plays, movies or sitcoms, she kept drifting toward "After School Specials" and she decided to do her internship at the Children's Television Workshop. She wound up staying there for six years, working on Sesame Street productions around the world. After her daughter was born with a heart defect, Shari got together with a friend to write The Parents' Guide to Children's Congenital Heart Defect...