Viña Delmar

Born Alvina Louise Croter to vaudeville parents in Brooklyn, she left school at thirteen, tried acting, ushering and other jobs before discovering a talent for writing. A breakthrough arrived when her novel Bad Girl became a 1928 bestseller, its frank treatment of working-class life sparking both controversy and a Literary Guild selection, while later titles such as Kept Woman and Loose Ladies kep… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources