Zoe Akins

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Zoë Akins, 1914

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

Life

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

After the publication of the anthology Interpretations (1912), she published her drama debut with Papa in 1914 and then concentrated on writing works for the stage . Her best-known pieces include the social melodrama 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 Hugo Cecil Levinge Rumbold, who died that same year.

She had her greatest success with The Old Maid (1934), the adaptation of a novel by Edith Wharton , for which she received the Pulitzer Prize for Theater in 1935 .

She was also a well-known screenwriter and wrote the screenplays for films such as Once a Lady by Guthrie McClintic (1931) and Girls About Town (1931), The Lady of the Camellias (1936) and Desire Me (1947), all directed by George Cukor originated.

Her most recent novels were Forever Young (1941) and Cake upon the Water (1951).

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SURNAME Akins, Zoë
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Akins, Zoe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Humansville , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1958
Place of death Los Angeles , California