Harvard Club of Toronto

TIFF Premiere Meeting with Tinker Lindsay ‘74

September 17, 2014

Tinker Lindsay ’74, co-writer of the screenplay for the film, Hector and the Search for Happiness, was in Toronto in September for the film’s North American premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.  She made time to meet with Harvard Alumni from Harvardwood and the Harvard Club of Toronto.

Lindsay graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard with a B.A. in English and American Language and Literature. She was a Phi Beta Kapa member and she was an editor for the Harvard Crimson.  Lindsay also completed the Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course.

Lindsay is an accomplished screenwriter, author and conceptual editor.  She has worked with best-selling non-fiction author Gay Hendricks and is the co-author for a detective series, The Rules of Ten.

When asked about advice to aspiring writers, she said that “you should feel the joy or fear or terror of your characters because you are then allowing yourself to become them when you are writing.” Lindsay encourages students to have a conversation with themselves and find out what kind of stories they are drawn to.  Then, “you can bring that passion to your writing.”  She also suggests that joining a writer’s group is a good idea.