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Theresa "Tess" Slesinger (July 16, 1905 – February 21, 1945) was an American writer and screenwriter and a member of the New York intellectual scene. Life and career.
An unconventional childhood and her association with Jewish left-wing literary radicals shaped the biting satire of Tess Slesinger's novels and short stories. Her subsequent conquest of Hollywood as a screenwriter was cut short by her untimely death at age thirty-nine.
SLESINGER, Tess. Born 16 July 1905, New York, New York; died 21 February 1945, Los Angeles, California. Daughter of Anthony and Augusta Singer Slesinger; married Herbert Solow, 1928 (divorced); Frank Davis, 1936; children: two. Tess Slesinger could be said to have had everything but time: well-to-do parents who sacrificed in order to give her ...
Sep 13, 2023 · Issues of racial, class, and gender inequality in the interwar period were taken up by the Harlem Renaissance writer Jessie Redmon Fauset and by Tess Slesinger in what Paula Rabinowitz terms her “socialist feminist” fiction and underlies much of the irony and satire of Dorothy Parker and Mary McCarthy.
Tess Slesinger's 1934 novel, The Unpossessed details the ins and outs and ups and downs of left-wing New York intellectual life and features a cast of litterateurs, layabouts, lotharios, academic activists, and fur-clad patrons of protest and the arts.
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Tess Slesinger. Tess Slesinger was born on 16 July 1905 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), The Bride Wore Red (1937) and Are Husbands Necessary? (1942). She was married to Frank Davis and Herbert Solow.
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Tess Slesinger (1905–1945) was an American writer and screenwriter and a member of the New York intellectual scene. She was educated at Ethical Culture Fieldston School from September 1912 until June 1922, Swarthmore College and the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York.
