Sharon Rich (born June 11, 1953) is an American author and film historian, best known for the biography Sweethearts about 1930s singing stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.

[1] She was close friends for many years with Jeanette MacDonald's older sister, actress Blossom Rock (aka Marie Blake).

[2] Along with interviewing hundreds of people, Rich had access to many collections of private letters, Eddy's personal scrapbooks, diary entries, FBI files and MacDonald's unpublished autobiography (which Rich later annotated in 2004).

[7] Rich's first book, Jeaneatte MacDonald: A Pictorial History (1974) was published when she was twenty years old.

[5] The book release party was held at the American Film Institute in Washington, D.C., where Rich was a guest speaker.