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Smith, Betty (Wehner)

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 393 words | Copyright

Smith, Betty [Wehner] (1904–72),writer, whose novels about her native New York City are A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943), Tomorrow Will Be Better (1948), and Maggie‐Now (1958), treating the lives of girls growing up in slums. Joy in the Morning (1964) is a novel about a very young couple beginning marriage. With George Abbott she made a musical drama (1951) of her first book.

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