Caprice Crane is the engaging, sharp-witted new voice of a generation that no longer knows what to call itself – spoiled by the peacetime won on the battlefields of Europe and Asia by their great-grandparents at such great cost; spoiled, too, by the many fixed-rate-per-month, all-inclusive local and long-distance calling plans now available at such low cost.

Born in Hollywood, California, under the dual signs of Scorpio and "Construction Ahead – Expect Delays," Caprice shares a birthday with everyone's favorite mouthless feline, Hello Kitty.  Her mother, renowned film, television and stage actress Tina Louise, is perhaps best known as Ginger Grant from the enduring sitcom "Gilligan’s Island." The beloved TV icon tells anyone who comes close enough that Caprice is her life’s greatest achievement.  Her father is former talk show host and Grammy winner Les Crane, who conducted legendary TV interviews with Malcolm X, Bob Dylan (the singer/songwriter’s most famous and sought after appearance), and The Mamas and The Papas (who lacked a name until Les suggested the one that would eventually stick).

While still a child, Caprice once gave away a cherished family television set to a friend who had won an imaginary contest.  She later attended New York University, studying film and television, incorrectly assuming that it would enable her to build her own TV set from scratch and recapture a part of that idyllic childhood.

Soon after graduating, she landed a job with MTV Networks.  At MTV, she produced and wrote a mind-boggling (truly – you’d freak out if you sat down and tried to watch it all, and afterward, you’d wonder where all those years of your life went) array of comedy, dramedy, news, reviews, biography, rock-star hagiography, promotions, and devotions.  When she got sick of that, she continued music supervising for film/TV, founded a record label, and created her own line of custom jewelry, worn by many of the brightest stars in film and music.

Ready at last to meet her destiny, she recently again turned her attention – and the sharp wit and joie de vivre that through the years have earned her both accolades and jail time – to a long-time love and true calling … writing for the screen.  And the bookshelf.  Or nightstand, or Gertrude-Stein-caricature-emblazoned tote.  Wherever people keep stuff they can’t wait to read.  

Stupid & Contagious, Caprice Crane's debut novel, released by Warner Books May 2006, was among the first fruits of that effort. And a juicy fruit at that, dripping with originality, biting wit, pop music and movie references, and laced with more laughs than a pomegranate’s got seeds. The novel centers around a struggling record exec with dreams of hitting it big and a recently fired PR-executive-turned-waitress who embark on a cross-country journey to find the meaning of life, the next hot band, the founder of Starbucks, and maybe…love.  That is if they don't kill each other first. The book won Best Chick Lit Book of 2006 in the Mainstream Fiction category of the RT Reviewer's Choice Awards.