Ann Peacock

Ann Peacock is a South African-born screenwriter based in the United States. After working as a law professor in her native South Africa, she moved to the United States and started a screenwriting career at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has received awards and nominations for her works A Lesson Before Dying (1999), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), and The First Grader (2015).

Biography
Peacock was born and raised in South Africa. She was educated at the University of Cape Town, where she obtained her law degree, and she had a career as a law professor.

Her screenwriting career began after she moved to the United States, writing her first screenplay June the 16th as a screenwriting student at University of California, Los Angeles, inspired by a family experience with internal resistance to apartheid. She wrote the HBO film A Lesson Before Dying (1999), for which she won the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. In 2000, she adapted the Langston Hughes short story Cora Unashamed into a TV movie of the same name for PBS' The American Collection. In July 2002, Walden Media hired Peacock as the screenwriter for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, for which she was later nominated for the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form).

Her screenwriting credits also include In My Comedy (2004), Pictures of Hollis Woods (2007), Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008), Nights in Rodanthe (2008), and The Killing Room (2009)    She won the 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture for her screenplay The First Grader. In 2015, she adapted Alice Hoffman's book The Dovekeepers into a television miniseries of the same name for CBS.

She has a son who was engaged in the anti-apartheid movement.