Carrington, Elaine Sterne

Elaine Sterne Carrington was a highly successful writer of radio soap operas that reflected her personal philosophy, moral vision and the hopes of her time. Flourishing from the 1930s through the 1950s, and basing her stories on her own experiences, she saw the state of marriage as perfect happiness for a woman (any problems within it were her own fault) and viewed the family as the bedrock institution for American life.

A writer and storyteller since childhood, Carrington sold her first short story, The King of the Christmas Feast, to St. Nicholas Magazine at age thirteen. At age nineteen her movie scenario, Sins of the Mothers, won first prize in a contest sponsored by the Vitagraph Company and the New York Evening Sun . By her early twenties, her stories were appearing in numerous magazines including Harper's, Colliers, Good Housekeeping, Pictorial Review, Woman's Home Companion, McCall's, Red Book and The Saturday Evening Post . She co-wrote a Broadway play, Nightstick, which was made into the movie, Alibi, and she wrote a number of one-act plays for vaudeville including A Good Provider, The Red Hat, Five Minutes from the Station, and Fear .

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