Originally from San Francisco, Stephanie Ericsson began her writing career in television when she married Sandy Baron (comedian and actor best known for his role as Jack Klompus on Seinfeld). She worked for the award-wining screenwriter Lonne Elder III (Sounder) as a story editor on movies, including A Woman Called Moses (produced and starring Cicely Tyson) and as a screenwriter for the popular sitcom, Mork & Mindy (starring Robin Williams).Love and a second marriage with film director, Jim Hinton, of Wilson Griak Inc. took her to Minneapolis-Saint Paul where she wrote numerous docudramas and films and became a senior copywriter at the advertising agency Campbell-Mithun.In 1988, when she was pregnant with their first child, her husband, Jim, died suddenly of a heart attack. From the private journals she kept after he died, she wrote Companion Through The Darkness, Inner Dialogues on Grief which became an instant classic on grief from the moment it was published by HarperCollins in 1993.Her other work includes "The Ways We Lie," the cover story for "The Whole Truth About Lying, Trust Us" issue of the Utne Reader, and which is reprinted in college text books around the world, year after year as an example of the "exemplary essay," and ShameFaced (Hazelden Publications), which has been standard-issue in chemical dependency primary treatment for nearly 25 years. She is also the editor of two books by Stephen Zuckerman: New Clichés for the 21st Century and Doc, What's Up?Stephanie Ericsson can be found on Facebook where she maintains a special group called The Companions to help her readers and others connect and share their personal experiences. Companion Through The Darkness also has its own page on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CompanionThroughDarkness?ref=hl.She currently lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.