Margaret Ayer Barnes was born in Chicago in 1886. She began writing in 1926, after breaking her back in a traffic accident, encouraged by the playwright Edward Sheldon. Her first play, an adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, was bought by Katharine Cornell and ran 207 performances on Broadway in 1928.
Her novels include Years of Grace (1930), Westward Passage (1931), Within This Present (1933), Edna, His Wife (1935) and Wisdom's Gate (1938). She also co-wrote the play Dishonored Lady with Sheldon. She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1967.
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