Olive Higgins Prouty—American novelist
Education
Olive Higgins Prouty (January 10, 1882–March 24, 1974) was an American novelist, best known for her pioneering consideration of psychotherapy in Now, Voyager and her feminist melodrama Stella Dallas. Prouty was born in Worcester in 1882 to Katherine Chapin and Milton Prince Higgins. Olive Higgins graduated from Smith College in 1904 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature.
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Fame
Sylvia Plath received a scholarship from Smith College and the benefactress was Olive Higgins Prouty, a famous author.
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Work
Olive Higgins Prouty (January 10 1882 – March 24 1974) was an American novelist, best known for her pioneering consideration of psychotherapy in Now, Voyager starring Bette Davis and her feminist melodrama Stella Dallas. ... Prouty is also known for her philanthropic works, and for her resulting association with Sylvia Plath, whom she encountered as a result of endowing a Smith College scholarship for "promising young writers". She supported Plath financially in the wake of Plath's unsuccessful 1953 suicide attempt; subsequently, Plath used Prouty ...
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In her 1961 autobiography, Olive Higgins Prouty reflected that "[t]he feature of most interest about Stella Dallas is, I think, the number of its reincarnations."
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Olive Higgins Prouty lived at 393 Walnut Street in Brookline, a suburb of Boston near to Wellesley. Sylvia Plath would start a correspondence with Olive that would last the rest of her life. She wanted to be both brilliant and friendly, and she achieved both. She had been keeping a journal for some years, and the Journals really started to gain importance to her in college.
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Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the trade: Warner Bros., Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, director Irving Rapper, and screenwriter Casey Robinson.
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Olive Higgins Prouty's 1941 novel Now, Voyager provides an even richer, deeper portrait of the inner life of its protagonist and the society she inhabits.
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Olive Higgins Prouty (1882–1974), like many of her characters a wealthy Bostonian, was the author of ten novels, including Stella Dallas (1923), which became the basis for three films and a long-running radio serial.
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Olive Higgins Prouty (January 10, 1882-March 24, 1974) was an American novelist, most active in the period between the First and Second World Wars. ... By 1920 Olive Higgins Prouty had published three novels and a book of short stories.
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