for election in November 2010. In 2011, Crawford founded the non-profit Benewah Human Rights Coalition and served as the organization's first president. In 2013, she made a documentary, Surviving Mommie Dearest. On November 21, 2017, the e-book editions of Mommie Dearest, Survivor, and Daughters of the Inquisition were published through Open Road Integrated Media. She is also currently working with composer David Nehls on a stage musical adaptation of Mommie Dearest, to be produced in regional theater. Crawford is currently writing the third book in her memoir trilogy, following Mommie Dearest and Survivor. Personal life Crawford met Harvey Medlinsky, a director and Broadway stage manager, while she was appearing in the Chicago national company of Barefoot in the Park. They were married briefly in the late 1960s. She met her second husband, commercial producer David Koontz, while she was working on a car commercial. They divorced after ten years of marriage. Filmography Books Mommie Dearest (1978) Black Widow: A Novel (1981) Survivor (1988) No Safe Place: The Legacy of Family Violence (1994) Daughters Of The Inquisition: Medieval Madness: Origin and Aftermath (2003) Scammed: A True Story of Christina & The General (2014) Mommie Dearest: Special Edition (2017) ebook Survivor (2017) ebook Daughters of the Inquisition: Medieval Madness: Origin and Aftermath (2017) ebook References External links American women novelists American adoptees American film actresses American memoirists 20th-century American novelists American stage actresses American television actresses County commissioners in Idaho Writers from Los Angeles Living people Actresses from Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles alumni University of Southern California alumni 21st-century American novelists Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts alumni 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers American women non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people)