Marion Fairfax
MARION FAIRFAX was an American screenwriter, playwright, and producer with a prolific writing career for stage and screen. She started as an actor, appearing in Broadway productions and then wrote...
Marita Bonner
MARITA BONNER was a short story writer, essayist, and playwright. She wrote for her Brookline, Massachusetts high school’s magazine, and soon excelled in literature, music, and German at Radcliffe...
Marjorie Benton Cooke
MARJORIE BENTON COOKE was an American playwright, monologist, and novelist. She was born in Indiana in 1876 and attended the University of Chicago, graduating in 1899 with a Bachelor of Philosophy...
Martha Morton
MARTHA MORTON was raised between her birthplace New York City and London. At 19, she wrote a comedic parody skit performed for a benefit. Its success led her to pen the melodrama Hélène (1888) for...
Marthe Cosnard
MARTHE COSNARD was raised in a household that revered the Theatre. At thirty-six, she presented her first play, les Chastes Martyrs (1650), which was so popular and admired that she became a...
Mary Aldis
MARY ALDIS was an American playwright, poet, and key figure in The Little Theater Movement and the second wave of the Chicago Renaissance (1910-mid 1920s). In 1911, Aldis and her husband...
Mary Carr Clarke
MARY CARR CLARKE was a playwright, poet, songwriter, and publisher. Very little is certain about her personal life, including her birth and death dates, and perhaps even her legal name. She was...
Mary Chase
MARY CHASE, born MARY AGNES MCDONOUGH COYLE, was a journalist, playwright, and novelist. She began her career as a beat reporter for local newspapers in Denver, but in the 1930s went freelance and...