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  1. Ursula Parrott (March 26, 1899 – 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.

  2. 18. Apr. 2023 · She was a world traveler, a partner in a rural Connecticut newspaper, an informant in a federal drug investigation, and a pilot in the Civil Aeronautics Administration during World War II. She navigated a wildly fluctuating career and personal life, including four husbands and as many exes.

  3. 3. Mai 2023 · Ursula Parrotts “Ex-Wife” caused a sensation when it was published in 1929. But it wasn’t the racy, frothy endorsement of sexual liberation readers were primed to expect. By Jessica Winter....

  4. 30. Apr. 2023 · A reissue of Ursula Parrotts racy novel “Ex-Wife,” and a new biography of its author, remind us of the brazenly talented women sidelined by convention.

    • Alexandra Jacobs
  5. 2. Mai 2023 · An instant bestseller when it was published anonymously in 1929, Ex-Wife captures the speakeasies, night clubs, and parties that defined Jazz Age New York—alongside the morning-after aspirin and calisthenics, the lunch-hour visits to the gym, the girl­talk, and the freedoms and anguish of solitude.

  6. 21. Apr. 2023 · By August of 1929, conjecture had correctly zeroed in on Katherine Ursula Parrott (née Towle), a journalist and fashion writer who seemed to bear an uncanny resemblance to her bobbed and brushed heroine.