Biography
Tess Slesinger was an American writer and screenwriter. Born in New York City on 16 July 1905, she studied at Swarthmore College and the Columbia University School of Journalism. She published fiction including the novel The Unpossessed (1934) and short-story collection Time: The Present (1935) before moving to Hollywood in 1935.
Her screenwriting credits include the adaptation of The Good Earth (1937) with Talbot Jennings and Claudine West, The Bride Wore Red (1937), Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) with Frank Davis, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) with Davis. She collaborated frequently with her second husband, producer and writer Frank Davis, whom she married in 1936. Slesinger helped establish the Screen Writers Guild.
She died of cancer in Los Angeles on 21 February 1945, aged 39.
