Screenwriter Robin Swicord adapted Little Women, Memoirs of a Geisha, and The Jane Austen Book Club, her feature directing debut. Her other film credits include Matilda (cowritten with Nicholas Kazan), Shag, The Perez Family, Practical Magic, and most recently, a co-story credit for her contribution toThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Her stage plays Last Days at the Dixie Café and Criminal Minds were produced Off-Broadway. Swicord is married to the writer Nicholas Kazan; they have two daughters.