Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (born Linda Joyce Bloodworth on April 15, 1947, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri) is an American writer and television producer.
Bloodworth-Thomason is best known for creating, writing, and producing several television series, most successfully with the series Designing Women. She and her husband, Harry Thomason, were also notable for their friendship with former President Bill Clinton and his family.
Bloodworth-Thomason grew u...
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Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (born Linda Joyce Bloodworth on April 15, 1947, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri) is an American writer and television producer.
Bloodworth-Thomason is best known for creating, writing, and producing several television series, most successfully with the series Designing Women. She and her husband, Harry Thomason, were also notable for their friendship with former President Bill Clinton and his family.
Bloodworth-Thomason grew up in Missouri and graduated from Poplar Bluff High School. Linda and friends were the founders of the Alpha Pi Phi sorority. She went on to obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. She moved to Los Angeles, California, in the early 1970s, where she taught English at Jordan High School, in the Watts neighborhood.
After her teaching stint concluded, Bloodworth went on to work for The Wall Street Journal in advertising. She then became a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily Journal. During...
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