The Vertical City (Esprios Classics)

Fannie Hurst (1889-1968) was an American novelist. She was born in Hamilton Ohio the only surviving child of a well-to-do Jewish family. She spent the first twenty years of her life in St. Louis Missouri where she attended Washington University in St. Louis and graduated in 1909. In 1921 she was among the first to join the Lucy Stone League an organization that fought for women to preserve their maiden names. She was active in the Urban League and was appointed to the National Advisory Committee to the Works Progress Administration in 1940. She was also a delegate to the World Health Organization in 1952. Hurst is now best known for the screen adaptations of her works such as the 1934 film Imitation of Life.