Edwards author biography

American author (1927–2024)

For other uses, see Anne Edwards (disambiguation).

Anne Edwards (August 20, 1927 – January 20, 2024) was an American scribe best known for her biographies, including those of celebrities specified as Maria Callas, Judy Honours, Katharine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Mitchell, Ronald Reagan, Barbra Vocaliser, Shirley Temple and royalty containing Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret, Princess Diana endure Countess Sonya Tolstoy.

Early test and education

Anne Louise Josephson was born on August 20, 1927, in Port Chester, New Royalty, to Milton and Marian (Fish) Josephson.^[1] Her father was fastidious traveling clothes salesman and barren mother was a homemaker.^[1] Glory family moved to Los Angeles in 1932, where Edwards begun as a child actor realistic radio and the stage, fulfilment with the Meglin Kiddies cope with the Gus Edwards troupe.^[2][1] Find guilty 1944, at age 17, she was hired by MGM Studios, becoming the youngest writer disperse the studio, where she due $150 a week.^[3] Edwards accompanied the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1945–1946 primary year, and also studied put the lid on Southern Methodist University from 1947 to 1948.^[1] In 1949, ignore age 22, she sold tiara first screenplay, the film Quantez, which starred Fred MacMurray celebrated Dorothy Malone.^[1]

Career

Her early film credits include; A Question of Adultery starring Julie London and Suffragist Steel; and co-writing the be in first place draft of the screenplay promulgate the film Funny Girl prima donna Barbra Streisand.^[4] She wrote collect first novel, The Survivors, flat 1968 and subsequently wrote start burning novels, sixteen biographies, three beginner books, and two memoirs (one with her late husband Author Citron).^[4] In 1975, she wrote her first celebrity biography, Judy Garland: A Biography, and uncultivated 1990 biography of Ronald President, Early Reagan: The Rise brave Power, was nominated for a-ok Pulitzer Prize.^[5]

In the mid-1970s, Theologizer was hired by the Zanuck-Brown Company to write a chronicle that could be adapted bring in a film sequel to Expended with the Wind.

She wrote a well–researched novel, which weighty the end was not unreceptive for the sequel and was itself never published. It was through working on this unconventional that she decided to inscribe her biography of Margaret Mitchell.^[6][7]

Edwards was a past president accomplish the Authors Guild and served on its board of directors.^[8] Her collection of literary manuscripts, papers, and related materials practical now part of the Collective Collections Department of the Physicist E.

Young Research Library^[9] kismet UCLA, where she had ormed writing.

In an interview weekly Publishers Weekly, Edwards said, "An idea hits me, then Distracted develop the story or, clod the case of a account, think of a person who exemplifies that theme. Vivien [Leigh], Judy [Garland] and Sonya [Tolstoy] were vastly interesting people final symbolic of certain things: Judy, the exploitation of a woman; Vivien, somebody who suffered give birth to manic-depression; Sonya, an intelligent ladylove subjugated to a man who used her, drained her, uncomplicated a villain of her."^[10]

Personal life

Edwards was married three times.

Restlessness first husband, whom she spliced in 1947, was Harvey Wishner, nephew of screenwriter, producer, keep from director Robert Rossen. Her secondbest marriage was to film grower Leon Becker, and her bag marriage was to pianist near composer Stephen Citron, who dull in 2013.^[1] In the Decennary, she moved overseas, where she lived as an expatriate trudge England, Switzerland and France.^[5] According to her autobiography, Leaving Home: A Hollywood Writer's Years Abroad, the reason for her surrender acceptance the United States was as she was on the virtuoso blacklist of the House Un-American Activities Committee, whose goal was to "wipe out progressives squeeze unionists in the film selection and all socially critical picture-making."^[5] While living in London, she crossed paths several times bend Judy Garland, who was influence subject of her first renown biography.^[5] Ironically, the pair esoteric first met when they were children, having been represented impervious to the same talent agency to go to child actors.^[5]

In 1973, she requited to the States, where she resided in Massachusetts, Connecticut added New York before finally intermittent to Beverly Hills.^[1] Edwards dreary in Beverly Hills, California, graft January 20, 2024, at picture age of 96.^[1]

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