biography
pronunciation:
[aykinz]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1886–1958)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Humansville, Missouri, USA. She trained as an actress in New York City, but turned to writing light comedy and film scripts. In 1935 she received the Pulitzer Prize for her dramatization of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid. Other plays include Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1921) and The Greeks Had a Word for It (1930). |
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