Thelma Adams
Thelma Michelle Adams (née Schwartz; February 7, 1959) is an American author and film critic. She wrote the historical fiction novel The Last Woman Standing. Adams also served as the chair of the New York Film Critics Circle twice, and worked as a contributing editor at Yahoo! Movies, Us Weekly, and the New York Post. Adams has written for various outlets, including The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, and Variety. Early life Thelma Michelle Schwartz was born into a Jewish family in Los Angeles, California to parents, Lawrence and Rosalie Schwartz. In 1981 Adams graduated from UC Berkeley, having majored in history. During this time she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa along with the editor of the campuses writing journal, The Berkeley Poetry Review. Adams went on to get her MBA from UCLA in 1985, before getting her postgraduate degree from Columbia University. While pursuing her education Adams worked in various internship programs with groups like the American History Association and the American Film Institute. Career In 1986 Adams married her husband Ranald, before spending the next decade working for various humanitarian and arts groups around the New York area. In 2000 Adams began employment with