Rhimes has stated that she exhibited an early affinity for storytelling and that her time spent as a candy striper while in high school sparked an interest in hospital environments.

Rhimes attended Marian Catholic High School, before enrolling at Dartmouth College, where she earned her Bachelor's Degree.

Rhimes was ranked at the top of her class and earned the prestigious Gary Rosenberg Writing Fellowship Award.

Rhimes adopted her first daughter, Harper, in June 2002 and adopted another girl in February 2012 named Emerson Pearl.

He mentioned her to Shonda Rhimes and commented on the resemblance Scorsone had to Patrick Dempsey ( the actor who plays Derek Shepherd ).

In 2001, Rhimes wrote Crossroads, the debut film of pop singer Britney Spears.

It could have something to do with creator Shonda Rhimes ' scalpel-sharp writing … or McDreamy's impossibly luxurious man hair.

Directed by Tamra Davis and written by Shonda Rhimes, the film features Britney Spears, Zoe Saldana, Taryn Manning, and Anson Mount in the leading roles, with Dan Aykroyd, Kim Cattrall, and Justin Long in supporting roles.

Knight said the reason he quit Grey's Anatomy is because of trust issues with the show's creator, Shonda Rhimes.

Rhimes resided in Park Forest South, Illinois ( now University Park ) with two older brothers and two older sisters.

Though 2004's The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement ( 2004 ) did not score at the box office like its predecessor, Rhimes later said that she treasured the experience if for nothing else – the opportunity to work with its star, Julie Andrews.

In film, entertainment, and television, Dartmouth is represented by Budd Schulberg, Academy Award winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront, Michael Phillips, who won the Academy Award for best picture as co-producer of The Sting, Rachel Dratch, a cast member of Saturday Night Live, creator of Grey's Anatomy Shonda Rhimes, film director and producer Jethro Rothe-Kushel (" The Oscars "), VP of Fox Searchlight, Zola Mashariki, Chris Meledandri Executive Producer of Ice Age, Horton Hears a Who!

Development on the film began in 2001, when Spears created a concept that was later expanded by Rhimes.

On May 18, 2012, Grey's Anatomy creator, Shonda Rhimes, announced that Raver had decided to leave Grey's Anatomy after three seasons, " I know this season ’ s finale had some surprises for viewers and the exit of Kim Raver was one of the big ones.

She will co-star on the upcoming ABC drama series Gilded Lillys created and produced by Shonda Rhimes.

In the March 2, 2009 edition of People, Shonda Rhimes, the show's creator, head writer and executive producer stated that the claim was false.

Shonda Rhimes ( born January 13, 1970 ) is an American screenwriter, director and producer.

Rhimes is best known as the creator, head writer, and executive producer of the acclaimed medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy and its spin-off Private Practice.

In May 2007, Rhimes was named one of Time magazine's 100 people who help shape the world.

Rhimes was an executive producer for the medical drama series Off the Map, and developed the ABC drama series Scandal, which debuted as a mid-season replacement on April 5, 2012.

Rhimes was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of a university administrator and a college professor.

Rhimes would later relocate to Los Angeles to attend USC to study screenwriting.

Rhimes earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television.

After graduation, Rhimes found herself an unemployed scriptwriter in Hollywood.

To make ends meet, Rhimes worked at a variety of day jobs, including as an office administrator, and then as a counselor at a job center that taught mentally ill and homeless people job skills.

A feature script Rhimes wrote was purchased by New Line Cinema.

Rhimes is currently the creator, executive producer and head writer of Grey's Anatomy.

It made him a little sick, and he let go of her.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

She had touched her face, truly a noble and pure face, only with a lip salve which made her lips glisten but no redder than usual.

My great-grandmother, I have been told, made her garden her great pride ; ;

and bright though they all were, they could not possibly compete for her interest with Papa, whose mind -- although he never tried to dazzle or patronize lesser lights with it -- naturally eclipsed theirs and made them seem to her even younger than they were.

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

all day long the Caravan slowly made her way through the difficult passages.

A few years before his death Papa had agreed with Mama to make a joint will with her in which it would be provided that in the event of the death of either of them an accounting would be made to their children whereby each child would receive a bequest of $5000 cash.

She just about made me carry her upstairs and then she clung to me and wouldn't let me go.

Afterwards I learned that Eileen had called Thelma on the telephone and made a big scene about Thelma trying to take her husband away.

`` You have made the labor worth while '', he said to her, smiling.

Planes made her feel faint, and in Tokyo, where she had gone that summer, she had been given raw fish for breakfast and so she had come straight home.

The remarks she made about the sufferings of a lonely woman seemed so broad at first that he didn't know what to make of them, but after the sixth drink he put his arm around her and suggested that they go upstairs and look for her checkbook there.

She stood up, smoothing her hair down, straightening her clothes, feeling a thankfulness for the enveloping darkness outside, and, above everything else, for the absence of the need to answer, to respond, to be aware even of Stowey coming in or going out, and yet, now that she was beginning to cook, she glimpsed a future without him, a future alone like this, and the pain made her head writhe, and in a moment she found it hard to wait for Lucretia to come with her guests.

She had made curtains for all the windows of her little house, and she had kept it spotless and neat, shabby as it was, and cooked good meals for Bobby Joe.

Carrying it to the living room, she imagined the picture she made: tall and roundly slim, a bit sophisticated in her yellow sheath, with a graceful swingy walk that she had learned as a twirler with the school band.