Tricia Aurand

About The Author

Tricia Aurand is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and podcast host. She was a frequent collaborator with Oscar nominee Stephen J. Rivele (Ali, Nixon), and she is often approached by producers specifically to work on historical and research-based projects. Tricia’s other produced feature films include A Heart Full of Hope (2025), The Christmas Chain (2024), They Crawl Beneath (2023), and Middleton Christmas (2020). Her non-fiction book about a pioneering woman pilot, Taking Flight: The Nadine Ramsey Story, was published by the University Press of Kansas in 2020 and is a notable aviation biography on Amazon.

Online, Tricia writes for popular YouTube channel Lessons from the Screenplay (1.5 million subscribers). She also co-hosts Beyond the Screenplay, a top-100 Film & TV podcast on iTunes and Spotify. She lives in Los Angeles.

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Books by Tricia Aurand

A Dangerous Beauty

The Kennedys, the Mob, the FBI, and Judith Exner—the Woman Who Linked Them All

By Mark Allen and Tricia Aurand

Foreword by Patt Morrison

One woman’s explosive true story about her romance with President John F. Kennedy, her role as his liaison to the criminal underworld, and the terrible aftermath that followed.

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