Claim: The Heiress (1947 play) was written by a woman and a man.
Evidence: The Heiress is a 1947 play by American playwrights Ruth and Augustus Goetz adapted from the 1880 Henry James novel Washington Square.
Ruth Goetz -LRB- January 12 , 1912 -- October 12 , 2001 -RRB- was an American playwright , screenwriter , and translator along with her husband and collaborator Augustus Goetz.