The performances of Academy Award winner Goldie Hawn have endeared her to audiences around the world and she has touched millions more with her work as a prolific producer, humanitarian and, now, a best-selling author.

After studying drama at American University, she made her professional dancing debut at the Texas Pavilion of the New York World's Fair in 1964-65 and remained in New York to perform as a singer and dancer in the Broadway productions such as Kiss Me Kate, Guys and Dolls, and How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Hawn continued to work steadily as a dancer, which ultimately led to television work in Los Angeles, culminating in her appearance in the classic comedy/variety show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. She went on to headline her own show in Las Vegas and returned to television for several specials over the years, including Pure Goldie, Goldie and the Kids - Listen to Us, Goldie and Liza Together (with Liza Minnelli) and The Goldie Hawn Special.
Hawn made her feature film debut in The One and Only Genuine, Original Family Band, before playing opposite Walter Matthau and Ingrid Bergman in Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She went on to star in Butterflies Are Free and the dramatic The Sugarland Express, which marked Steven Spielberg's feature directing debut. Other early films include There's a Girl in My Soup, The Girl From Petrovka and The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, among others. She starred opposite Warren Beatty and Julie Christie in the 1975 box office hit, Shampoo, before taking a brief hiatus from films to devote time to her growing family, returning to the screen opposite Chevy Chase in the comedic hit, Foul Play.

Her next project would establish Goldie Hawn as a trailblazer for women in film, becoming one of the first actresses to executive produce and star in her own projects. The film was the 1980 box office smash Private Benjamin, which would become one of the most successful motion pictures of her career and earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She soon reunited with Chase in Seems Like Old Times, starred in Best Friends with Burt Reynolds and it was during filming of Jonathan Demme's Swing Shift, which co-starred Christine Lahti, that she met her partner, Kurt Russell.

Hawn continued her success both as actress and producer with a variety of film projects including Protocol, Wildcats, Overboard (with Russell), My Blue Heaven, CrissCross and Something to Talk About. She later co-starred in the action hit Bird on a Wire opposite Mel Gibson and the thriller Deceived as well as Housesitter with Steve Martin and Death Becomes Her with Meryl Streep and Bruce Willis. She starred opposite Diane Keaton and Bette Midler in the worldwide box-office hit, The First Wives Club, and was part of the all-star ensemble cast of Woody Allen's musical comedy Everyone Says I Love You. She starred in Town and Country, with Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton and, in 1998, re-teamed with Steve Martin in the Paramount Pictures comedy, The Out-of-Towners. Goldie was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Fox Searchlight's 2002 release, The Banger Sisters, co-starring Susan Sarandon and Geoffrey Rush.

In addition to producing such critically-acclaimed movies for television as The Matthew Shepard Story and When Billie Beat Bobby, Hawn not only produced, but made her debut behind the camera as the director of the Turner Network Television original movie Hope, which starred Christine Lahti, J.T. Walsh and Jena Malone. She is currently preparing her next film project, Ashes to Ashes, which she wrote and will produce and direct.

In 2005, Putnam published Goldie's memoir, A Lotus Grows in the Mud, which immediately became a New York Times Bestseller and appeared on bestseller lists in the UK and around the world prior to its recent release in trade paperback.