Clarissa Fairchild Cushman (13 Jan 1889 – 18 Feb 1980) was an American author, best known for Young Widow which was turned into a movie starring Jane Russell. She won the Mary Roberts Rinehart Mystery Novel Prize for I Wanted to Murder.
Personal life
She was a member of the Fairchild family. She attended Oberlin College. She married Robert Eugene Cushman in 1916. Works
The new poor (1928) The bright hill (1936) Judith/But for her Garden (1936) The side of regret (1938) I wanted to murder (1941) Young widow (1945) The glass barracks
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