Gabrielle Donnelly was born and raised in London and educated at St. Angela’s Providence Convent Grammar School and Royal Holloway College, London University. She became a journalist, moved to Los Angeles in the early 1980’s, and joined the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1985. She has worked prolifically since then, contributing show business interviews to a range of British newspapers and magazines, including, currently, Weekend, The Daily Express, Saga, and Candis. She has also published six novels, including the Los Angeles Times best-seller “The Girl In The Photograph” and the critically acclaimed “The Little Women Letters.” Through the latter she became involved with the Louisa May Alcott community at Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts, where she travels most years to give a speech at the annual Summer Conversations Series.