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Martha Weinman Lear

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Martha Weinman Lear is a New York Times best-selling author and award-winning journalist. She is best known for her 1980 memoir Heartsounds: The Story of a Love and Loss, which was about her husband Dr. Harold Lear's heart attack, subsequent health decline, and death. Harold Lear's cousin Norman Lear produced a TV movie version of the book, also called Heartsounds (1984), which was nominated for three Emmys and won a Peabody Award. James Garner and Mary Tyler Moore played Harold Lear and Martha Weinman Lear, respectively. Weinman Lear also wrote the best-selling 1963 book Child Worshippers, as well as 2008's Where Did I Leave My Glasses?: The What, When, and Why of Normal Memory Loss and 2014's Echoes of Heartsounds: A Memoir of Healing. She has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, GQ, Redbook, Reader's Digest, Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's Day, and Family Circle, and she has appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Today Show. Years after Harold Lear's death, she married screenwriter Albert Ruben. She is the mother of famed philosopher and psychoanalyst Jonathan Lear and the grandmother of television writer Sophia Lear.
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      Heartsounds
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