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Stephanie Ericsson is an American writer and author best know for her book, Companion Through the Darkness, Inner Dialogues on Grief, published by HarperCollins.

Early Years:

Born in 1953 to an American mother, Helen Quicksell and Swedish father,Steve Ericsson, who was the naivest painter, Steve II, best known for his landscapes of the life and people of Ibiza. Ericsson grew up in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, she is the middle child of five siblings. She graduated from Sylmar High School in 1971 and attended California State University, where she majored in Televion & Film and minored in Spanish.

Early Career:

Ericsson married comedian, actor and lyricist, Sandy Baron, in January, 1976, in New York City, and began working with him as a co-writer on sit-com pilots, maintaining a residence both in New York City and in Los Angeles. However, she describes her first job as a typist for playwright and screenwriter, Lonne Elder III. She quickly moved into story editing with him, eventually working on five major television movies over the next 4 years. Discontent with Hollywood and her life as a celebrity's wife, Ericsson divorced and moved to Minneapolis to study creative writing at the University of Minnesota in 1980.