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41:(August 15, 1902 – June 10, 1952) was an American newspaper columnist, short-story writer, and novelist. In the era of the 1920s-1930s, she was considered one of the country's most widely-read fiction writers, as well as one of the highest paid women writers of her time; several of her books were best-sellers, and several others were made into movies.
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During the mid-1920s, in addition to writing short stories and beginning a novel, she also wrote syndicated columns. Among her columns in the early-to-mid-1920s were occasional articles about sports, including boxing, and college football. And during 1925 and 1926, she covered the World Series for
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Charles "Bobby" Winans, but that marriage ended in divorce in 1941. She was the mother of one child, Thomas, with her first husband. She died after a long illness, in New York: some sources
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winner named "Best Short Short" of 1929, and in 1932, she was again named a Best Short Story writer, by the O. Henry
Memorial Committee. She also received honorable mentions for her short story "Night Club" (1927); her 1931 story "Good Wednesday", which also appeared in Harper's; as well as for a
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say she was 49, but some sources say she was 52. At the time when she took ill, she had been working on a new novel, to be called "Lover Come Back." Her son Thomas, who became a newspaper executive and a patron of the arts, donated the funding for a new library in her memory to the
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American life, a writer skilled at presenting the foibles of relationships in a realistic manner. Her story "Him and Her" (published in
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