 Her film credits include co-writing the first draft of the screenplay for the film "Funny Girl" (1968) starring Barbra Streisand.She wrote her first novel, the best-selling "The Survivors", in 1968 and subsequently (as of 2015) has written eight novels, sixteen biographies, three children's books, two memoirs (one with her late husband—composer-musicologist-pianist Stephen Citron) and an autobiography.She is a past president of the Authors Guild and currently serves on its board of directors.