US writer and wit. She was a leading member of the literary circle known as the Algonquin Round Table. She reviewed for the magazines
Vanity Fair and the
New Yorker, and wrote wittily ironic verses, collected in several volumes including
Enough Rope (1927), and
Not So Deep as a Well (1936). Her short stories include the collections Laments for Living (1930), and Here Lies (1939). She also wrote screenplays in Hollywood, having moved there from New York City along with other members of her circle.
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