Graduated from prestigious Radcliff College by age nineteen.
She was only 25 when she wrote her first novel "The Best of Everything"
which stayed on the New York Times best seller list for five months
then eventually made into a blockbuster movie by 20th Century
Fox.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 272-273. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.