Benita Garvin
Writing
Known For

Inspired by a true story, Girl Fight recounts the harrowing story of a 16-year-old, stellar high school student whose life spirals downward when her former friends conspire to upload onto the Internet a shocking video of them beating her up.
Girl Fight

Journalist Meredith Redmond is a battered Canadian woman who flees Canada to escape her abusive husband, Robert. She settles in Seattle, but her now-remarried ex-husband eventually finds her. To protect her two children, she must choose between killing him herself, hiring someone to kill him, or disappearing with her children and assuming new identities. Based on a true story.
Run for Your Life

Patty Duke plays a divorced woman who goes to law school to defend herself in court after a chauvinistic judge awards her rotten husband their property.
When the Vows Break

True story of a charming, popular American who managed to kill his mother and 3 wives before anyone even suspected him.
Black Widower

Lawyers must defend a prisoner accused of murdering two of his inmates during the Attica prison riots in 1971.