Allegra Huston

Allegra Huston (born 26 August 1964) is a British-American author, editor, and writer based in Taos, New Mexico. She is the author of Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found and the novel A Stolen Summer (Say My Name in hardback), and How to Edit and Be Edited. She is the co-founder of Imaginative Storm Writing Workshops, with James Navé; they are co-authors of Write What You Don't Know: 10 Steps to Writing with Confidence, Energy, and Flow and How to Read for an Audience. She is also the screenwriter and producer of the short film Good Luck, Mr. Gorski. Early life Huston was born on 26 August 1964 in London, England. Her mother was ballerina Enrica Soma, and her father was John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich. When Huston was four, her mother died in a car accident and she subsequently moved to Ireland, where she was raised by her mother's estranged husband, film director John Huston. Huston's half-siblings are actress and director Anjelica Huston, writer Tony Huston, writer Artemis Cooper, and Jason Cooper, the 3rd Viscount Norwich.