- Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award: in 1958 as author of Best Play nominee "Look Homeward, Angel," and in 1967 as co-author of book with Roger O. Hirson of Best Musical nominee "Walking Happy."
- Won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Look Homeward, Angel".
- Of Scottish and Irish ancestry. Started in advertising, then became a publicity agent. Later worked on scripts for radio and also ghost-wrote materials released by stars in movie magazines, using the pseudonym Anita Kilgore. Her best-known film work was her screenplay adapted from William Inge's play 'Come Back, Little Sheba' (1952).
- It was widely believed that her marriage to the agent Kurt Frings, who arrived in America as a refugee, was the inspiration for her own story, "Memo To A Movie Producer", famously filmed as "Hold Back The Dawn".
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