Katherine Ursula Towle better known by her pen name

Pen name

A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...

 Ursula Parrott, was an American writer of romantic fiction stories and novels.

Works

Parrott's first novel, Ex-Wife, was published in 1929, and was subsequently adapted for film as The Divorcee

The Divorcee

The Divorcee is a 1930 American drama film written by Nick Grindé, John Meehan and Zelda Sears, based on the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director...

starring Norma Shearer

Norma Shearer

Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s...

 (who won an Oscar for her role) in 1930. Shearer also starred in an adaptation of the 1930 Strangers May Kiss. Her novel Next Time We Live was adapted for film as Next Time We Love

Next Time We Love

Next Time We Love is a 1936 melodrama film directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Ray Milland. It was written by Melville Baker with Preston Sturges and Doris Anderson, who were both uncredited, based on Ursula Parrott's 1935 novel Next Time We Live, which...

in 1936.

Personal life

Parrott was married four times. Her marriage to the journalist Lindesay Mare Parrott lasted from 1924 to 1928; her second to the banker Charles Greenwood in 1931 lasted a year. Parrott's third marriage, to the theatrical lawyer John J. Wildberg in 1934, ended in June 1938. Her final marriage, to A. Costar Schermerhorn, officially ended in 1944.

In December 1942, Parrott became the subject of national coverage when she was brought up on Federal charges of attempting to help the jazz guitarist Michael Neely Bryan

Mike Bryan (musician)

Michael Neely Bryan was an American jazz guitarist.-Biography:Mike Bryan was a self-taught guitarist born in Byhalia, Mississippi on August 9, 1916...

 escape from the Miami Beach Army stockade., but was found innocent by the jury at her trial.

Parrott died in New York in 1957, apparently in poverty.

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