Career
She is best known for writing television miniseries including Titanic and The Last Don, and for the television film The Jacksons: An American Dream. Eliason was one of the writers for the hit television series Love, American Style and wrote her first screenplay Tell Maine a Riddle in 1980. Eliason wrote two books before becoming a screenwriter, Fresh Meat/Warm Weather in 1974 and Laid Out in 1976.