Zoë Akins

Zoe (Zoe ) Akins ( born October 30, 1886 in Humansville, Missouri, † October 29, 1958 in Los Angeles ) was an American screenwriter and playwright who in 1935 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play The Old Maid.

Life

Zoë Akins attended Monticello Seminary in Godfrey and the Hosmer Hall High School in St. Louis and then worked as an actress, New York City.

After the publication of the anthology Interpretations (1912 ), she published her drama debut in 1914 with dad and then focused on the writing of stage works. His most famous pieces include the Gesellschaftsmelodram Déclassée (1919 ) and Daddy 's Gone A- Hunting ( 1921), a sentimental portrait of a declining marriage. In 1929, she achieved wide fame with her play The Greeks Had a Word For It, a comedy about the Ziegfeld Follies. On March 13, 1932, she married the set designer Cecil Levinge Hugo Rumbold, who still died in the same year.

Her biggest success came with The Old Maid ( 1934), the adaptation of a novel by Edith Wharton, for which she received the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for drama.

In addition, she was a well known writer and wrote the screenplays for such films as Once a Lady from Guthrie McClintic (1931 ) and Girls About Town (1931 ), The Lady of the Camellias (1936) and Desire Me (1947 ), all directed by George Cukor emerged.

Last published her novels Forever Young (1941 ) and Cake upon the Water ( 1951).

External links and sources

• Zoë Akins in the Notable Names Database (English)
• Zoë Akins at the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Alan Kreizenbeck: Zoe Akins: Broadway playwright, ISBN 0313298157, (2004)
• Chapter 8: Zoe Akins ( 1886-1958 ), in: PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project
• Zoe Akins, Pulitzer Prize -Winning Playwright
• Chambers Biographical Dictionary, pp. 22, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2

• Author
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( English )
• Drama
• Pulitzer Prize winner
• Americans
• Born in 1886
• Died in 1958
• Woman