Word: authoresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zita Miller, Park Avenue Glamor girl loudly touted as an authoress before she began writing her first book-something sexy about a girl named Flamingo Duval (TIME, April 1)-nearly had to start her career all over again at the age of 19. She 1) finished the book, 2) lost 16 chapters of the manuscript. They turned up a few days later in one of the very best restaurants...
Taylor Caldwell, authoress of the current No. 1 fiction best-seller (This Side of Innocence), gave a Manhattan reporter an interview which made her look like Olivia Twist. She was not disciplined as a child, she told the New York Post-she was "brutalized." She nearly went blind for lack of glasses. She was put to work in a bindery at 15, lost most of her hair in a machine, later "made $22 a week in an office job-and got 65? of it for myself." She finally got through high school at 25, college...
Zita Heinmuller, 19, appeared to be the next glamor girl to be trumpeted to literary fame for a fee. Brass-lunged Trumpeter Russell Birdwell (who puffed Nancy Bruff's The Manatee into a brief bestseller) worked on beauteous Zita bright & early: before Zita started her book. The new authoress, daughter of the president of the Longines-Wittnauer Watch Co., Inc. ("the world's most honored watch"), dashed off an outline, flew off to Havana to begin padding it out. Declared Birdwell: she would have the help of "research workers" who were beautiful models. Book's title: Park...
Born. To Nancy Bruff Clarke, 30, sightly authoress of bawdy, briefly best-selling Manatee, and Edwin Thurston Clarke, 51, Manhattan investment counselor: their first child, a son; in Manhattan, the day her first volume of poems (My Talon in Your Heart) was published. Name: Thurston Bruff. Weight...
Sartre's temperament is Gallicly gay. Once at a bibulous party the irrepressible prophet began boxing a dressmaker's dummy. Nearby, on an old-fashioned bed topped by a canopy, sat bravoing Authoress de Beauvoir. Suddenly Sartre landed a haymaker. The dummy hit the bed, shook loose the canopy on De Beauvoir's brunette head. Wags said that Sartre had crowned her Queen of Existentialism...