Anna Thomas
Anna Thomas is a German-born American author, screenwriter, and film producer. She is best known as the author of the 1972 cookbook The Vegetarian Epicure, which was highly influential vegetarian cookbook. She is currently discipline head of the Screenwriting department at the American Film Institute.
Background
Anna Thomas wrote The Vegetarian Epicure while still a film student at UCLA. It had a strong impact on the natural foods movement within the American counterculture.She made The Haunting of M, her thesis film for her master's degree, in Scotland. It was well received by film critics as well as shown at film festivals and art houses.
Thomas married director and producer Gregory Nava in 1975.
Cookbooks
The Vegetarian Epicure, Alfred A. Knopf, 1972, 305 pagesThe Vegetarian Epicure, Book Two, Alfred A. Knopf, 1978, 401 pagesThe New Vegetarian Epicure, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996, 450 pagesLove Soup, W.W. Norton & Company, 2009, 528 pagesVegan Vegetarian Omnivore: Dinner for Everyone at the Table, W.W. Norton & Company, 2016, 496 pagesScreenwriting filmography
The Confessions of Amans The Haunting of M, also producedThe End of August El Norte, also producedA Time of Destiny, also producedMy Family/Mi Familia, also produced- ''Frida''
Film and writing nominations
- Academy Awards: Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for El Norte
- Writers Guild of America: Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for ''El Norte''
Cooking Awards and nominations
Won
- James Beard Foundation Award: Best Healthy Focus Cookbook for Love Soup
- James Beard Foundation Award: Cooking, Recipes, or Instruction for ''"The Soup for Life: Eating Well''
Nominated
- James Beard Foundation Award: Vegetarian, for ''The New Vegetarian Epicure: Menus for Families and Friends''