Not many know that Princess Leia was also a prolific writer. Carrie Fisher, who died on Tuesday at 60, led a busy writing career that included several successful memoirs, novels and scripts.
Here we look at her four full-length novels, all written before the release of her first memoir, Wishful Drinking, in 2008.
Postcards from the Edge (1987)
Fisher’s debut novel is semi-autobiographical, telling the story of a movie actress struggling to put her life back together after a drug overdose. Fisher went on to write the screenplay for the movie of the same name, which starred Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine.
Surrender the Pink (1990)
{{/usCountry}}Surrender the Pink (1990)
{{/usCountry}}This romance novel is, like all of Fisher’s fiction works, semi-autobiographical, this one said to be based on her marriage to Paul Simon. In the story, a successful female screenwriter gets married, then separated, and only years later finds herself fully ready to write the man out of her life.
Delusions of Grandma (1993)
A Hollywood scriptwriter writes letters to her unborn child that help to unravel the series of events that led her to where she is now, eight-and-a-half months pregnant and in a relationship gone wrong.
The Best Awful (2004)
Seen as a sequel to “Postcards from the Edge,” Fisher’s last novel is said to fictionalize her relationship with agent Bryan Lourd, father of her daughter Billie Lourd. In the story, a bipolar actress-turned-successful talk-show host juggles her beloved six-year-old daughter, a gay ex-husband and her aging starlet mother.
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