Sally Benson

Born September 3, 1897· St. Louis, Missouri, USA

† Died July 19, 1972

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Born in St. Louis as the youngest of five children, she attended the Mary Institute before her family relocated to New York, where she completed studies at the Horace Mann School, took dance lessons, and entered the workforce at seventeen. Early on she contributed interviews and film reviews to the New York Morning Telegraph, and between 1929 and 1941 placed ninety-nine pieces in The New Yorker, t… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources