Gerty Agoston
Gerty Agoston is a Hungarian-American playwright and novelist. Personal life. Agoston; a playwright and novelist; was born in Budapest, Hungary. When she was 6 years old, she wanted to come to the United States after seeing American films. After studying in Paris, she went to New York City with her sister who had married a United States citizen. When she was in Paris, she wrote for the publication "New Yorker Staats-Zeitung" for 26 years and was a film correspondent for "Basler Zeitung". For 3 years, Agoston was the cultural correspondent of Deutsche Presse-Agentur. She later  decided to quit her journalism career for writing novels and plays. Professional career. Agoston has written 13 novels which have been translated into multiple languages. One of her novels; "My Bed Is Not For Sleeping;" was banned in Australia. Other novels include "I Married a Hundred Husbands" and "My Husband Is a Magnificent Whore". Her one-act play; "For Each Man Kills;" was published in the anthology "The Best One-Act Plays Of 1948-1949" and her one-act play "Three Parsons" was published in "The Best One-Act Plays Of 1950-1951". She translated German plays into English as  well as American plays into German. She was one of the subjects of "Deeper Than Y", a 2006 documentary about aging and the elderly.