American novelist Josephine Lawrence was born in Newark, NJ, in 1892.
She graduated from Newark High School and then attended New York
University. Upon graduation (with a degree in English), she took a job
with the Newark "Sunday Call" newspaper, and eventually became editor
of the household service department and the children's page.
She began her writing career with children's books, turning out more
than 30--many of them anonymously--and writing a children's radio
series, "The Man in the Moon", before writing her first adult novel.
She had a reputation as an intensely private person, and avoided
publicity--such as press interviews for her books--at all costs. Even
her publishers didn't know much about her background, as she refused
all requests for information. Several of her books have been turned
into films and episodes of anthology series during the "Golden Age of
Television" in the 1950s.