Gress, Elsa (1919–1989)

views updated

Gress, Elsa (1919–1989)

Danish playwright, memoirist and feminist. Name variations: Elsa Gress Wright. Born 1919 in Denmark; died 1989 (some sources cite 1988); m. Clifford Wright (1919–1999, American painter), 1956.

Independent and forthright speaker in public debates, wrote memoirs Mine mange hjem (1965), Fuglefri og fremmed (1971), and Compania I-II (1976), as well as plays, scripts, and work on feminism including Det uopdagede kon (1964) in response to Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex; with husband, established the artist colony Decenter in Marienborg on the Island of Mon, north of Copenhagen.

About this article

Gress, Elsa (1919–1989)

Updated About encyclopedia.com content Print Article