This is the first study of Hollywood by an anthropologist. Jorja Prover examines how different groups of individuals separated from one another superficially by ethnicity race and sex function as writers in Hollywood. She describes the white “majority” Hollywood writers and explores their concerns and creative processes and then discusses other writers who until recently have been virtually invisible in the entertainment industry—women the physically challenged gays African Americans Latinos and Asians. In detailing their efforts at gaining professional acceptance these writers introduce new previously unmentioned issues involving access advancement talent sexual harassment and discrimination.