The Princess and the Shock Therapy

Writer, actor and eternal princess Carrie Fisher was born on this day in 1956.Though she will always be Star Wars’ Princess Leia to many of us, Fisher was born a Hollywood princess. The daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, some would say she was born royal. But Writer’s Almanac brings us Fisher the writer:“By the time I was 13, maybe even younger, I would write to calm myself down,”