Carrie Fisher, the novelist and memoirist, also was an unsung genius script doctor
Carrie Fisher, who died today at the age of 60, will be remembered by countless fans for her turns as Princess Leia in the Star Wars series, but that was far from her only successful role. Fisher was a talented writer who could bring a script to life off-screen as well as she could as an actress in front of the camera.
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