Based on a true crime, The Younger Girl interweaves historical fiction and psychological suspense to unravel a legacy of family deception crossing three generations.
About Georgia
Georgia Jeffries is a writer of acclaimed noir fiction and Emmy-winning series drama.
Her novel, The Younger Girl, based on a true crime of murder and family betrayal across three generations, was named one of five finalists for the international 2025 Bridge Book Award presented by the American Academy in Rome. The Los Angeles Review of Books has described her short stories in national anthologies as “firecracker tales” and “domestic tragedy brilliantly segueing into comic farce.”
Her work in film has been praised by the Los Angeles Times as “standing ovation television and honored with multiple Writers Guild Awards and the Humanitas Prize.
Georgia worked as a journalist for American Film before writing and producing the ground-breaking female-driven series dramas, Cagney & Lacey, China Beach and Sisters. Her screenwriting career has been distinguished by extensive field research, from patrolling the mean streets of Rampart with the LAPD to crashing a Vegas bounty hunters’ convention to reporting from a Walter Reed Army Hospital surgical bay, each investigation the basis for one of her many docudramas and series pilots for CBS, ABC, NBC, HBO and Showtime.
Appointed to the tenured faculty at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, she created the first undergraduate screenwriting thesis program at an American university. Her contributions to television have been covered in Women Who Run The Show: How a Brilliant and Creative New Generation of Women Stormed Hollywood and Television’s Second Golden Age, “the return of the serious, literary, writer-based drama.”
Born in the Illinois heartland, she came of age in the San Francisco Bay Area and the wilds of Los Angeles where she graduated from UCLA cum laude.
