Authors and Illustrators Database

Born: 12/25/1918  Sharon Township, Washtenaw County
Died: 07/01/2002
Parents: John W. Martin, Ivy G. Martin
Spouse: Hubert Skidmore, died in 1946; Leonard Stegman, jewelry businessman
Children: Hugh Stegman
Address(es):
Last known address:
Los Angeles, CA

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Sudden Rain - Written in the 1970s, published posthumously.	Fiction	Adult	New York: Scribner	2005
	Bottonwood	Fiction	Adult	New York : Random House	1962
	The Big Nickelodeon	Fiction	Adult	New York : Random House	1956
	Back of Town	Fiction	Adult	New York : Random House	1952
	About Lyddy Thomas	Fiction	Adult	New York : Random House	1947
	Night Shift - Made into a movie, "The Man I Love", in 1947	Fiction	Adult	New York : Random House	1942
	Whistle Stop - Hopwood Award Winner, 1940. Made into motion picture	Fiction	Adult	New York : Random House	1941

What is the aim or goal of your writing: "I do not like to intellectualize about my work. " 1st ed. says, " Miss Wolff has continued to write of people living on the edge of society." 2nd ed says, "Critics at the time of her first novel likened her to Farrell, Steinbeck, and Caldwell."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

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