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Ursula Parrott (March 26, 1899 [1] – September 1957), was a prolific modern novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer whose sensational first novel, Ex-Wife (1929), was a Jazz Age best seller. Adapted for film as The Divorcee, it starred Norma Shearer.
Apr 30, 2023 · The novelist Ursula Parrott, left, faced charges for helping a boyfriend, Michael Neely Bryan, desert the Air Force — one of many instances of her notoriety. Associated Press. By...
Apr 18, 2023 · Ursula Parrott became “sufficiently important,” and then she was forgotten. Widely read and highly sought after in her heyday, she suffered the fate of many women authors of her time, dismissed as a money-writer churning out romantic pablum for undiscerning female readers.
Aug 23, 2023 · Ursula Parrott was a successful and influential writer in the 1920s and 1930s, but her work is largely unknown today. Her novel 'Ex-Wife' depicts the challenges and freedoms of women in New York, and was more popular than 'The Great Gatsby' in its time.
Feb 12, 2019 · Ursula Parrott was accused of promoting a dangerous sexual freedom. In her best-selling novels, the controversial author chronicled “life in the era of the one-night stand” during the twenties and thirties.
Ursula Parrott (March 26, 1899 – September 1957), was an American writer of romantic novels. Her first book, Ex-Wife (1929), was a best seller, and was adapted for film as The Divorcee, starring Norma Shearer. Exploring changing sexual mores and their implications for women, Ex-Wife was considered scandalous in its time.
Credited with popularizing the label "ex-wife" in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorcées, career women, single mothers, work-life balance, and a host of new challenges facing modern women.
