Benson, Sally, 1897-1972

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Sally Benson (b. Sept. 3, 1897, St. Louis, MO-d. July 19, 1972, Los Angeles, CA) began her career writing for the New York Morning Telegraph. Between 1929 and 1941, she published 99 stories in The New Yorker, including nine signed with her pseudonym Esther Evarts. She is best known for her semi-autobiographical stories collected in Junior Miss and Meet Me in St. Louis. The later was turned into a film by MGM in 1944; it was one of the most popular movies made during World War II.

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creatorOf	Aikman, Duncan, 1889-1955. Contributions to The American Mercury, 1933-1938.	Ohio State University Libraries
creatorOf	Benson, Sally, 1900-1972. Josephine : a play, [19--] / by Sally Benson.	Ohio State University Libraries
creatorOf	Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989. MGM and Twentieth Century-Fox screenplays, 1931-1963 (bulk 1937-1955).	Brown University, Brown University Library
creatorOf	Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980. Shadow of a doubt : screenplay / [by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, Alma Reville].	California Institute of the Arts, CalArts
creatorOf	Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Shadow of a doubt : screenplay / by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, Alma Reville.	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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associatedWith	Boucher, Anthony, 1911-1968
associatedWith	Chodorov, Jerome
associatedWith	Fields, Joseph A., 1895-1966
alumnusOrAlumnaOf	Horace Mann School (New York, N.Y.)
employeeOf	New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
correspondedWith	New Yorker Magazine, Inc
employeeOf	The American mercury.