Ursula Parrott
Katherine Ursula Towle Parrott was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 26, 1899. She attended the Catholic Girls Latin School before graduating from Radcliffe College and moving to New York City's Greenwich Village, where she worked as a fashion writer. In 1922, at the age of 23, she married Lindesay Marc Parrott, a reporter for The New York Times, whom she divorced in 1928. Parrott's first book, Ex-Wife, was published in 1929 and drew from her own divorce experience. Initially published anonymously, it was deemed scandalous at the time. The book achieved great success, catapulting Ursula into the spotlight as both a celebrated author and a controversial figure. After Ex-Wife, Parrott's subsequent 21 books and more than 50 short stories were presented as mass-market tales of romance, or what her son, Marc, called "formula stuff," the creation of which required her to work "like a galley slave." Formulaic though these works may have been, their depiction of strong women seeking to establish independent identities within a frequently hostile environment was vivid and remains highly contemporary. She stopped writing in 1947, and in 1952, a warrant was issued for her arrest in New York for grand larceny after she allegedly stole and pawned $1,000 worth of silverware from friends. According to her son, she passed away from cancer in 1957, anonymously, in a charity ward of a New York hospital.
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Navy Nurse is the romance of an avowed pacifist nurse and a duty-bound Navy commander on a hospital ship in the Atlantic during World War II.
In this 1943 romantic adventure by the author of the acclaimed novel Ex-Wife, two pilots, a man and a woman, are forced to land in a remote, snowbound forest, where for months they battle cold, storms, hunger, and the moral dilemma of their mutual attraction while engaged to two others.