Casual affairs
Subtitle: the life and fiction of Sally Benson
By: Maryellen V. Keefe
Series: Excelsior editions
Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Albany, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9781438450896
Subjects: American Authors; Biography; Women screenwriters
Description: "Follows the life and career of Sally Benson, acclaimed writer of New Yorker fiction and Hollywood screenplays."--Publishers website
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-448) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The writer's origins: St. Louis, Missouri "the Smith family album" 1909; title: Manhattan daze: 1909-1912; title: Summer of discontent: 1912; title: Houston: 1912-1913; title: Rising spirits: home again: 1913-1915; title: A world at war: arms and the men "prelude to a marriage": 1915-1918; title: Wedding bells: 1919-1922; title: Second honeymoon: 1922; title: Back to reality: 1922-1926; title: A wider world beckons: the first casual affair: 1927; title: Climbing the career ladder: Benson at The New Yorker: 1928-1929; title: Public success and private sorrow: 1930-1931; title: The writer makes strides: 1932-1933; title: Refining her vision: 1933-1934; title: Perfecting her craft: 1934-1935; title: Affairs, financial and other: 1936; title: Taking charge and branching out: 1937; title: Becoming an entrepreneur: 1938; title: A world at war, turmoil at home: 1939-1940; title: Behind the scene: 1940; title: Affairs, family and other: 1941; title: Becoming a celebrity: 1942; title: The war escalates at home and abroad: 1942; title: The world at war, Babe and Ham: 1943; title: Meet me in St. Louis: the fiction, the sources, look back: 1941-1942; title: The making of Meet me in St. Louis: 1943-1944; title: Hollywood, Pinewood, Broadway and beyond: 1947-1957; title: Epilogue.