Zoe Akins

ABOUT ZOE AKINS

Award-winning playwright and poet who wrote the dramatization of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid, set in New York City.

She first began her career in writing by pitching criticism pieces to various magazines and newspapers.

She won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Old Maid.

She married Hugo Rumbold .

Actress Katherine Hepburn starred in her film Stage Struck.