Jill Schary Robinson, memoirist, novelist and mother of UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer, has died at the age of 88.

Robinson died Saturday at her home in Beverly Hills, CA, according to a statement from her family. A cause of death was not specified.

Robinson was born in Los Angeles in 1936, the daughter of two artists. Her father, Oscar and Tony winner Isadore “Dore” Schary, was head of production at MGM from 1948 to 1956. Her mother was painter Miriam Svet.

After starting out as a copywriter for Foote, Cone & Belding, Robinson trained with iconic Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown and embarked on a career in journalism, writing about women's issues for Cosmopolitan, covering political trials for the Soho Weekly News, and appearing on Los Angeles radio stations KLAC and KPFK.