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==Early years== Mathison was born on June 3, 1950, in [[Los Angeles]], one of five siblings. Her father, Richard Randolph Mathison, was the Los Angeles bureau chief of ''[[Newsweek]]''. Her mother was Margaret Jean (nΓ©e Kieffer) Mathison, a food writer and convenience-foods entrepreneur. After graduating from [[Providence High School (Burbank, California)|Providence High School]] in 1968, Mathison attended the [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name=latobit/> Her family was friendly with [[Francis Ford Coppola]], whose children were babysat by Mathison. Coppola offered her a job as his assistant on ''[[The Godfather Part II]]'' (1974), an opportunity for which she left her studies at UC Berkeley.<ref name=latobit/> With Coppola's encouragement, she wrote a script for ''The Black Stallion'', adapted from the novel, that caught [[Steven Spielberg]]'s attention.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/05/melissa-mathison-master-hollywood-storyteller-et-the-extra-terrestrial?CMP=ema_565a "Melissa Mathison: a masterful storyteller who brought ET to life"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', November 5, 2015.</ref>
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