| Salma El-Sharkawy |
She was an American writer, born on July 16, 1905, in New York, USA. She is the fourth child of Anthony Slesinger, a Hungarian-born dress manufacturer, and her family was Jewish. She went to Ethical Culture Fieldston School till 1922, then she attended Swarthmore College and the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York. "Missis Flinders," a short story she wrote, was published in Story Magazine in December 1932. She is known for writing The Good Earth (1937), The Bride Wore Red (1937), and her final screenplay, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1974), for which she shared an Oscar nomination for Best Writing, Screenplay. She died on February 21, 1945, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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