Zoe akins biography

Her family was heavily involved with the Missouri Republican Party , and for several years her father served as the state party chairman. Louis, Missouri when Akins was in her early teens.

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While at Hosmer Hall she was a classmate of poet Sara Teasdale , both graduating with the class of It was at Monticello Seminary that Akins wrote her first play, a parody of a Greek tragedy. Following graduation Akins began writing a series of plays, poetry and criticism for various magazines and newspapers [ 3 ] as well as occasional acting roles in St.

Louis area theatre productions. Her first major dramatic work was Papa , written in The comedy failed even though it greatly impressed both H. Mencken and George Jean Nathan , [ 4 ] and she continued to write. The latter play, which starred Ethel Barrymore , was not only a great success but "something of a sensation, and her days of waiting were over.

These adaptations were mostly failures, released as silent films in a time when the industry was transitioning to sound. While some "talkie" stars had notable roles in the films Walter Pidgeon and a young Clark Gable , most of the films are now believed to be lost.