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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 | Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Shadow of a doubt : screenplay / by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, Alma Reville. | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | |
| 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 | Aikman, Duncan, 1889-1955. Contributions to The American Mercury, 1933-1938. | Ohio State University Libraries |
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| associatedWith | Boucher, Anthony, 1911-1968 | person |
| associatedWith | Chodorov, Jerome | person |
| associatedWith | Fields, Joseph A., 1895-1966 | person |
| alumnusOrAlumnaOf | Horace Mann School (New York, N.Y.) | corporateBody |
| correspondedWith | New Yorker Magazine, Inc | corporateBody |
| employeeOf | New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) | corporateBody |
| employeeOf | The American mercury. | corporateBody |
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| St. Louis | MO | US | |
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Birth 1897-09-03
Death 1972-07-19
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