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Sally Benson (née Sara Smith; September 3, 1897 – July 19, 1972) was an American writer of short stories, screenplays, and theatre.She is best known for her humorous tales of modern youth collected in Junior Miss and her semi-autobiographical stories collected in Meet Me in St. Louis.
The stories were first written as short vignettes in a series, 5135 Kensington, which The New Yorker published from June 14, 1941 to May 23, 1942. Benson took her original eight vignettes and added four more stories for a book compilation with each chapter representing a month of a year (from 1903 to 1904). [1]
Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 American Christmas musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Divided into a series of seasonal vignettes, starting with Summer 1903, it relates the story of a year in the life of the Smith family in St. Louis leading up to the opening of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (most commonly referred to as the World's Fair) in the spring of 1904.
Aug. 14—Joplin Stained Glass Theatre's production of "Meet Me in St. Louis" will kick off its new season this week. Kelly Weaver, director, said many people might be familiar with the musical ...
First edition (publ. Random House) Junior Miss is a collection of semi-autobiographical stories by Sally Benson first published in The New Yorker.Between 1939 and the end of 1941, the prolific Benson published 99 stories in The New Yorker, some under her pseudonym of Esther Evarts.
B. James F. Ballard; William J. Becker; Aaron Belz; Cuesta Benberry; Robert Benecke; Graham Bensinger; Sally Benson; Jerry Berger; David Berlo; Thekla M. Bernays
Explore daily insights on the USA TODAY crossword puzzle by Sally Hoelscher. Uncover expert takes and answers in our crossword blog. ... she resisted the label of "lesbian-writer," as she ...
IN FOCUS: The release of the Irish author’s latest novel, ‘Intermezzo’, is one of the biggest literary events of 2024, but Rooney is a writer who seems increasingly ill at ease with her ...