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Elisabeth Cobb (8 Oct 1902–26 May 1959) was an American writer. Her father was Irvin S. Cobb, a well-known humorist. One of her best known works was her 1934 novel She Was A Lady. She died in New York in May 1959.
Cobb attended the Skerton Finishing School.[1] Cobb worked in the editorial department of The Bookman[1] in the early 1920s. In 1924, a manuscript of Cobb's was published in Liberty.[2] Her first novel Falling Seeds was published in 1927[3] by Doubleday, Page and Company, when she was 25. The novel deals with the marriage of a Southern belle to a Yankee.
Cobb's second novel Minstrels in Satin was published in 1929.[4] The novel is about a young divorced woman living in Italy who has three children. The mother would focus more on her social life than the wellbeing of her children, who learned to be self-sufficient.[4] Critics had generally favorable opinions on the novel.
Cobb's third novel She Was A Lady was serialized in McCall's magazine before it was published in 1934.[5] The novel would receive a film adaptation in 1934.
After her father's death in 1944, Cobb wrote a biography of her father titled My Wayward Parent, and part of it was serialized in the August 1945 issue of Cosmopolitan[6] before it was published in late 1945. It reviewed well, and was a sales success.[7]
In 1947–1948, a comedy play Cobb co-wrote with Herschel Williams was produced titled The Men We Marry. It was shown on Jan. 15, 1948 at the Mansfield Theatre.[8]
In the early 1950s, Cobb would travel lecturing on various topics.[9]
Cobb first married singer Frank M. Chapman Jr on February 24, 1924, in Manhattan and divorced him on March 10, 1930, in Reno, Nevada.[10] There was one child from the marriage, Buff Cobb, born in 1926.
Her next marriage was to Alton A. Brody, who worked in real estate, on September 4, 1930.[11] She would divorce him on Feb. 16, 1938 in Las Vegas, Nevada.[12] Her final marriage was to Cameron Rogers, a writer, on November 21, 1938.[13]
Cobb converted to Catholicism in 1948.[14]
Cobb died aged 56 on May 25, 1959, at a New York hospital and was survived by her mother and children. Her grave is at Oak Grove Cemetery, beside her father.[15][16]
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