Elizabeth forsythe hailey biography

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, born in Dallas, Texas in , studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and received her Bachelor's degree from Hollins College in In the same year she married Oliver Hailey, a playwright and the father of her daughters, Elizabeth Kendall and Melinda Brooke. She worked briefly in journalism and publishing before joining her husband in writing for film and television. They served as creative consultants for the enormously popular television series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

Hailey's first novel, A Woman of Independent Means, written in , was an instant bestseller, and her adaptation of this work for the stage won the Los Angeles Critics Award. In , NBC aired A Woman of Independent Means as a six-hour miniseries starring Sally Field, and in this medium, too, the work won critical acclaim. In addition to A Woman of Independent Means, Hailey has written three other novels: Life Sentences in , Joanna's Husband and David's Wife in , and Home Free in All of these novels have been praised for their commitment to searching out the subtler truths of interpersonal relationships and personal integrity.

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