Casual Affairs

Casual Affairs
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By:"Maryellen V. Keefe "
"Biography & Autobiography"
Published on 2014-06-01 by SUNY Press

18. Oscar Graeve, letter to Sally Benson, 28 September 1937. 19. \u003cb\u003eKatharine S\u003c/b\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWhite\u003c/b\u003e, letter to Sally Benson, 20 September 1937. 20. Sally Benson, letter to \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eKatharine S\u003c/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eWhite\u003c/b\u003e, c. 22 September 1937. 21. Punch, 17 February 1937, 195–\u003cbr\u003e\n196. 22.

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Follows the life and career of Sally Benson, acclaimed writer of New Yorker fiction and Hollywood screenplays. In Casual Affairs, Maryellen V. Keefe vividly follows the life and career of Sally Benson, the New Yorker writer remembered by generations of moviegoers for Meet Me in St. Louis, the film that brought her family to life. Keefe traces Benson’s life from her childhood in St. Louis to marriage and motherhood to her award-winning fiction career and her success as a Hollywood screenwriter. Through the Jazz Age and into the 1930s and ’40s, Benson negotiated the transition from domesticity to the marketplace, becoming a full-fledged career woman while juggling her responsibilities as a wife and mother and indulging in several “quiet little affairs.” She succeeded early in a profession dominated by men, forging her way in a largely male world and winning the support and friendship of colleagues and editors. Benson established herself as a writer known for brutally honest portraits of middle-class women much like herself. “Impeccably researched and highly entertaining, this long-awaited biography of Sally Benson will find an important place in the history of American theater, film, and belles lettres.” — Donald Spoto, biographer of Alfred Hitchcock, Tennessee Williams, Laurence Olivier, and others “Finally a biographer capable of bringing the brilliant and outrageous Sally Benson to life! And what a life it was for a woman, who began a long career writing for the New Yorker in 1929 and Hollywood in the forties. Keefe’s vivid account, which draws on family papers as it traces Benson’s personal and professional ups and downs, is also the story of a generation of young women eager to balance work and family. Readers who know Benson primarily from the film Meet Me in St. Louis will come to know her as a stylist every bit as talented as Dorothy Parker and with the same wonderful flair.” — Susan Goodman, author of Republic of Words: The Atlantic Monthly and Its Writers, 1857–1925

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