# Becoming the Ex–Wife – The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott

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- Authors: [Marsha Gordon](https://www.bookquiver.com/marsha-gordon)
- Publisher: University of California Press
- ISBN: 978-05-2040-963-7
- Pages: 314
- Published: 2024-08-06
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

" Makes an excellent case for Parrott as an unjustly forgotten historical figure."—The New Yorker" Remind[s] us of the brazenly talented women sidelined by convention."—New York Times The riveting biography of Ursula Parrott—best-selling author, Hollywood screenwriter, and voice for the modern woman. Credited with popularizing the label " ex-wife" in 1929, Ursula Parrott wrote provocatively about divorcées, career women, single mothers, work-life balance, and a host of new challenges facing modern women. Her best sellers, Hollywood film deals, marriages and divorces, and run-ins with the law made her a household name. Part biography, part cultural history, Becoming the Ex-Wife establishes Parrott's rightful place in twentieth-century American culture, uncovering her neglected work and keen insights into American women's lives during a period of immense social change. Although she was frequently dismissed as a " woman's writer," reading Parrott's writing today makes it clear that she was a trenchant philosopher of modernity—her work was prescient, anticipating issues not widely raised until decades after her decline into obscurity. With elegant wit and a deft command of the archive, Marsha Gordon tells a timely story about the life of a woman on the front lines of a culture war that is still raging today.