Ursula Parrott (1899–1957) was born Katherine Ursula Towle in Dorchester, Massachusetts. After graduating from Radcliffe College, she became a newspaper reporter in New York and married her fellow journalist Lindesay Marc Parrott. The experience of their divorce helped inspire her first novel, Ex-Wife. Parrott became one of the most successful female writers of the 1930s, adapting several of her bestsellers for the screen. Her tumultuous private life included three more marriages. She died of cancer on a charity ward in New York, having spent the small fortune she earned with her pen.
