Complex sentence: In the early forties, Cook wrote a series of stories for "Redbook" about a precocious teenage girl named Violet who helps to untangle her father's love life, and in 1944 dramatized these in a play called "Violet".
Split into simpler sentences: In the early forties, Cook wrote a series of stories for "Redbook" about a precocious teenage girl named Violet who helps to untangle her father's love life. In 1944 he dramatized these in a play called "Violet".