Loraine Despres

|nationality=American |alma_mater=Northwestern University |spouse=Carleton Eastlake |children=1 }} Loraine Despres is an American novelist and screenwriter. Her novels ''The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc'' (2002) and ''The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell'' (2005) were Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club featured selections. Despres wrote episodes for many top network TV shows including ''The Highlander'', ''The Equalizer'', ''Knots Landing'' and ''''Dynasty''''. Most famously, she wrote the ''Who shot J.R.?'' episode of ''Dallas.'' Provided by Wikipedia