Biography
Maurine Dallas Watkins was an American playwright and screenwriter. She began her career as a journalist covering crime for the Chicago Tribune in 1924, an experience that provided material for her best-known work.
Her play Chicago (1926) was a Broadway success and later inspired the 1975 musical of the same name and the 2002 film. She wrote or co-wrote screenplays including Libeled Lady (1936) and contributed the story for I Love You Again (1940).
Watkins studied at Butler University, Radcliffe College and Yale Drama School. She died in 1969.
