About Nellise Child
Lived 1901 – 1981 (aged 79–80). Nellise Child was an American playwright, writer and novelist.
Nellise Child (died June 11, 1981) was an American novelist and playwright.
Biography Born Lillian Gerard, she changed her name to Nellise Child in an homage to her mother (i.e. "Nelly's child"). Child published eight novels, including Murder Comes Home (1933), The Diamond Ransom Murders (1935), Wolf on the Fold (1941), and If I Come Home (1944).
She also wrote plays, including Sister Oakes and After the Gleaners. It was about three working-class sisters dreaming of a better life, and its setting was based on her own experiences working in a California fish cannery. Happy Ending was then produced under its original title in 1960 at the Bucks County Playhouse. That production starred Ruth Chatterton and Conrad Nagel.
She was married to Abner G. Rosenfeld, with whom she had one son, Frank Redfield. Nellise Child died on June 11, 1981, in Chicago, Illinois, at the age of 79.
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Who was Nellise Child?
American playwright and novelist (1901-1981)
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Nellise Child was born in 1901 in New York City.
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Nellise Child died on 11 June 1981 in Chicago.
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Nellise Child was a playwright, writer and novelist.
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