Carrie Fisher was an American actress and writer best known for playing Princess Leia in the original Star Wars films. She wrote several semi-autobiographical novels, including Postcards from the Edge, and also wrote its screenplay for the film version. Her nonfiction includes Wishful Drinking, drawn from her one-woman stage show, and The Princess Diarist, a memoir built around diaries she kept while filming the first Star Wars. She died in 2016 at age 60.
