Grace Zaring Stone

Grace Zaring Stone (January 9, 1891 – September 29, 1991) was an American novelist and short-story writer. She is perhaps best known for having three of her novels made into films: The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Winter Meeting, and Escape. She also used the pseudonym Ethel Vance. Three of her novels --The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Escape, and Winter Meeting—were adapted for film. In 1955, Escape was translated into German and published in Germany as Die Flucht.

Death Zaring Stone died on September 29, 1991, at the Mary Elizabeth Nursing Center in Mystic, Connecticut, aged 100.