| Patricia Louisianna Knop | |
| Birth Date: | October 23, 1940 |
| Birth Place: | Muskegon, Michigan, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Screenwriter |
| Children: | 2 daughters |
Patricia Louisianna Knop (October 23, 1940 – August 7, 2019) was an American screenwriter, television producer, art collector, and sculptor.[1]
Knop was born in Muskegon, Michigan,[2] the daughter of Albert Ernest Knop and Alice Lillian Keat Knop. Her father worked in a refrigerator factory. She graduated from Muskegon High School in 1958.[3]
Knop met her husband in the Bahamas in the 1960s. They opened several coffee shops in New York, New Jersey, and Iowa, before getting into show business.[4] She was credited as a writer on the films The Passover Plot (1976),[5] Lady Oscar (1979), Silence of the North (1981),[6] 9½ Weeks (1986), Siesta (1987), Wild Orchid (1989), and Delta of Venus (1995). She was also a producer on the television series Red Shoe Diaries (1992 to 1996).[7] In theatre, Knop co-wrote the book for the musical Whistle Down the Wind (1989) with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Gale Edwards.[8]
Sculptures created by Knop appeared in the film Some Call it Loving (1973). Knop was an adventurous art collector; she and Zalman King filled their Santa Monica home with contemporary paintings and sculptures, antiques, salvaged items, and stained glass.[9]
Knop married film director Zalman King in 1965; they had two daughters, Gillian and Chloe. Her husband died in 2012, and she died in 2019, at the age of 78, in Santa Monica.[10]