Kathryn Forbes (1908–1966)
Forfatter af Mama's Bank Account
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Kathryn Forbes, a pseudonym for Kathryn Anderson McClean, was born on March 10, 1909, in San Francisco, Calif. and educated at Mount View High School. Forbes's book of short stories, Mama's Bank Account (1943), was dramatized by John Van Druten, produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstien II, vis mere and reached the Music Box Theater on Broadway as "I Remember Mama" in 1944. It was adapted to film in 1948 and became a popular television show for the Columbia Broadcasting Company, running from 1949 to 1957. Forbes's other work includes Transfer Point (1947) as well as magazine articles and radio scripts. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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- Kanonisk navn
- Forbes, Kathryn
- Andre navne
- Anderson, Kathryn (birth)
- Fødselsdato
- 1908-03-20
- Dødsdag
- 1966-05-15
- Begravelsessted
- Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, California, USA
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Dødssted
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Bopæl
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Erhverv
- short story writer
memoirist
radio scriptwriter
novelist - Kort biografi
- Kathryn Forbes was the pseudonym of Kathryn Anderson, author of the best-selling collection of stories concerning the daily struggles of an emigrant Norwegian family living in San Francisco in the early 1900s entitled Mama’s Bank Account (1943), which was adapted for the stage, cinema, and television as I Remember Mama by John Van Druten. Both of her Kathryn's parents were native-born Americans, but her grandmother had come to the USA in the late 19th century. Her 1947 novel Transfer Point took a less nostalgic look at life in San Francisco after World War I. Kathryn married Robert McLean, a carpenter, with whom she had two sons.
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