Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Years of Grace is a 1930 novel by Margaret Ayer Barnes.It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1931. [1] Despite this recognition, it is not her best-known work; that honor belongs to Dishonored Lady, a play she co-wrote with Edward Sheldon, which was adapted twice into film (first as Letty Lynton and later with its actual title).
Margaret Ayer Barnes (April 8, 1886, Chicago, Illinois – October 25, 1967, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Margaret Barnes may refer to: Margaret Ayer Barnes (1886–1967), American playwright, novelist and short-story writer; Margaret Anne Barnes (1927–2007), American writer; Margaret Barnes (marine biologist) (1919–2009), British marine biologist; Margaret Barnes of Westminster (16th-century), English tavern keeper, known as Long Meg of ...
Margaret Ayer (d. 1981) was an American author and self-illustrator of six books for children. She also illustrated 52 books, [ 1 ] including Anna and the King of Siam , written by other authors. In addition, she contributed short stories and articles to children's magazines.
Dishonored Lady (1947). Madeleine Damien is the fashion editor of a slick Manhattan magazine called Boulevard.Men are attracted to her, including boss Victor Kranish, wealthy advertiser Felix Courtland, and former assistant Jack Garet, who now works for Courtland and is blackmailing her about events from her past.
Chart newcomer Kenya Grace has made history as her debut single “Strangers” reached the No 1 spot. Born in South Africa but raised in Southampton, Grace began releasing music independently in ...
Janet Fairbank (June 18, 1903 – September 25, 1947 [1]) was an American operatic singer.. She was the Chicago-born daughter of novelist and suffragette Janet Ayer Fairbank and Kellogg Fairbank, the son of industrialist N. K. Fairbank and the niece of Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Margaret Ayer Barnes.
A 1936 lawsuit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for copyright infringement claimed that the script MGM used for the 1932 motion picture Letty Lynton plagiarized material from the play Dishonored Lady by Sheldon and Margaret Ayer Barnes. After being heard before various courts, the case ended up before the Supreme Court of the United States as Sheldon v.