Writer
While Eleanor Coppola may not consider herself a writer, she has nonetheless been able to write two successful books. Her first book, Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now, recorded the film’s journey from 1976 to 1979. Her detailed note-taking continued in other areas of her life as she collected and wrote about her life’s major events. With notes consisting of thirty year time span, Eleanor Coppola would go on to write the book Notes on a Life.
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