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Jan 19, 1998 · "A Midwife's Tale," produced by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and directed by Richard P. Rogers, chronicles the interwoven stories of two remarkable women: an eighteenth-century midwife and healer and...
Producer Laurie Kahn-Leavitt contacts Laurel Ulrich about making a film of the diary. 1991 A Midwife's Tale wins the Pulitzer Prize. 1992
May 1, 1999 · The result of Ulrich’s efforts was the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "A Midwife’s Tale," now a movie of the same name, made in collaboration with Ulrich by producer/writer Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and director Richard Rogers.
Jan 18, 1998 · Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, the film's producer and writer, realized the material's potential. While working for ''The American Experience,'' she was reading diaries of the post-Revolutionary period.
Producer Laurie Kahn-Leavitt talks about the making of the film A Midwife's Tale, and Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich discusses the importance of Martha Ballard's diary and what it reveals...
This interview was compiled from three interviews conducted by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt in September 1991, October 1993, and March 1994 in the course of writing the script for the film. Q: Is it difficult researching and writing the history of a little-known woman?
Jan 19, 1998 · When historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich published her book, "A Midwife's Tale The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary 1785-1812," she illuminated history like never before. Now this 200-year-ol…
