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- Birth nameMaritta Martin Wolff
- Maritta M. Wolff was born on December 25, 1918 in Grass Lake, Michigan, USA. Maritta M. was a writer, known for The Man I Love (1946) and Whistle Stop (1946). Maritta M. was married to Leonard Stegman and Hubert Skidmore. Maritta M. died on July 1, 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpousesLeonard Stegman(1947 - July 1, 2002) (her death, 1 child)Hubert Skidmore(? - 1946) (his death)
- In the 1950s, she moved to Los Angeles. She published four novels after "Night Shift", then apparently stopped writing. However, after her death, a manuscript was found stored in her refrigerator. (The refrigerator was a place where the manuscript would likely survive a house fire.) She had completed it in the early 1970s, but it was not published. Her family took the manuscript to Scribner, which published it in 2005 as "Sudden Rain".
- She attended the University of Michigan and majored in English. She wrote an 830-page manuscript for a composition class that won the university's 1940 Avery Hopwood Prize for writing. It also caught a publisher's attention, and became a blockbuster novel, "Whistle Stop".
- Child (with Stegman): son Hugh.
- Whistle Stop (1946) - $7,500
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