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Popular "women's" author of the first half of the 20th century.

American playwright and author of short stories, sentimental novels and Hollywood screenplays. She graduated with a BA from Washington University in 1909. Hurst was a noted philanthropist and leader in civic affairs, chairman of the National Housing Commission (1936-1937), a member of the National Committee to The Works Progress Administration (1940-1941), and, later, a delegate to the World Health Organization Assembly (1952). She was also one of the leading feminists of her day, member of the intellectual group Heterodoxy in Greenwich Village.

Resided at the Hotel Des Artistes, 1 West 67th Street, in Manhattan, New York.