Tess Slesinger
Tess Slesinger (* July 16, 1905 in New York City; † February 21, 1945 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American novelist and screenwriter.
Life
Slesinger grew up as children of Jewish parents with Hungarian- Russian origin, along with three brothers on the Upper West Side in New York. After her debt education she attended the Swarthmore College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She earned a bachelor's degree in English. In 1928 she married Herbert Solow, four years later was their divorce. About her husband she came into contact with the New York Intellectuals Lionel Trilling and others.
First Slesinger worked for several years as a journalist and then wrote book reviews for the left culture magazine Menorah Journal. In the 1930s, she began to publish short stories in 1934 followed with The Unpossessed her first and only novel. In this they processed their experiences in the left cultural spectrum of New York.
As a result of her literary success, the film producer Irving Thalberg was aware of them and brought them as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Here she met with Frank Davis know her second husband, whom she married in 1936. The two written in the following years, several screenplays. 1937 their son was born a year later was followed by a daughter. Her son Peter Davis was a successful screenwriter and producer of documentaries.
Slesinger died as a result of cancer.
Together with Frank Davis Slesinger was posthumously in 1946 for the screenplay for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.