![]() ![]() In her autobiography, she sums up her life as follows: In her seventies, Caspary taught writing workshops to prisoners in the New York Women’s House of Detention. In the 1950s she was gray listed by Hollywood for her political views, but she continued on with her productive writing career. She had her fights with Hollywood directors and producers, but she hung in there. It was fairly easy for her to get into the screenwriting business in the 1930s, because the studios paid next to nothing for writers in those days. ![]() Those who come after us may find it easier to assert independence, but will miss the grand adventure of having been born in this century of change.” In another generation, perhaps the next, equality will be taken for granted. “This has been the century of the woman, and I know myself to have been a part of the revolution. ![]() In her autobiography ‘The Secrets of Grown-Ups’, she wrote: She wrote eighteen novels and ten screenplays. Vera Caspary was a strong independent woman who had a highly successful career as a novelist and screen writer. ‘Laura’ by Vera Caspary (1943) – 194 pages ![]()
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