 By then, she had already written a novel, "Star Wind", which was published one year earlier than "Running Before the Wind", also by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.It was due to "Running Before the Wind" that Woolverton got the screenwriting job in Disney Animation's "Beauty and the Beast" in the late 1980s.She had taken a copy of the book to the studio, which ended up being read by then Disney Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, who then called her for an interview.