Janet Tamaro Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2006 ceremony for their work on the first and second seasons. Tamaro was also nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on "Sleeper Cell'." In 2010, Tamaro created the TNT television series "Rizzoli & Isles", which was inspired by the crime novels written by Tess Gerritsen. The series has been a hit for TNT for seven seasons and has sold into worldwide syndication. Janet Tamaro did her undergraduate study at UC Berkeley and later earned a master's degree in Journalism at Columbia University. She is married and
Rizzoli Bookstore the director of the Rizzoli Gallery, he organized an exhibition entitled “Fashion as Fantasy.” In 1976, Rizzoli opened a store in Chicago's Water Tower Place. Additional stores later opened in Boston, Costa Mesa, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Pasadena, San Francisco, Dallas, Oak Brook, Atlanta, Washington DC, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and Williamsburg. In 1984, Rizzoli acquired Scribner's Bookstore on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and opened an additional store in Soho. The Scribner’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue continued to operate under Rizzoli ownership until 1989, when it closed; the building, designed by Ernest Flagg in 1913, is now a Sephora. In 1985,