Authors on Main: Ernest Thompson

Join the Academy Award-winning writer of On Golden Pond, Ernest Thompson, for a conversation about his new literary thriller, Out Clause, followed by a Q&A. You can ask Ernest about his novels and the 30+ fellow Oscar winners and nominees he has worked with in his long and successful career. And take photos with Oscar!

Ernest Thompson’s work has won an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, Writers Guild and Broadway Drama Guild Awards and been nominated for a Tony, an Emmy and a British Academy Award. His plays have been seen in theatres around the world, his most enduring, On Golden Pond, translated into 30 languages and presented in more than 40 countries. Current projects include an On Golden Pond Broadway revival, directed by and starring the author; true also of his new one-man play, Archie Parish’s Parting Words, now on tour; his newest play Grand Time; the short film The Constituent; and the movie sequel, Home On Golden Pond. His novel Out Clause is now available. A prolific lyricist, his song with Carly Simon, “The Father Daughter Dance,” will soon be playing at a wedding near you. With his writer wife Kerrin Thompson, he established Rescind Recidivism, a prison writing program giving inmates a chance to feel creative as well as human, capable and worthy.