Douglas Day Stewart has written some of the most successful films and television movies in Hollywood history. His Blue Lagoon taught a generation about sex. The Boy in the Plastic Bubble launched John Travolta as a star and was, in its day, the most watched television film in history. An Officer and a Gentleman, which Stewart based on his own experiences as a naval officer, secured him an academy award nomination and became one of the ten highest-grossing love stories of all time. Stewart is the happily married father of three. An Officer and a Gentleman’s Daughter is his first novel.