Janeway, Elizabeth. Accident. 1964.

Biographical Note

Eliot Janeway was born in New York City in 1913. As a political economist he wrote books, articles, and syndicated columns. He served as an economic advisor to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was a vigorous critic of presidential economic policies from the Roosevelt to the Ronald Reagan administrations. He died in 1993 in New York City. Elizabeth Hall was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1913. She married Eliot Janeway in 1938. She began her writing career as a novelist in the 1940s, later becoming a literary critic, essayist, and finally a feminist author by the 1970s. She died in Rye, N.Y. in 2005.