Babette Rosmond

Who was Babette Rosmond?

Babette Rosmond was an American author.

Rosmond sold her first short story to The New Yorker at age seventeen. She published short fiction of her own and with Leonard M. Lake. She worked as an editor at the magazine publisher Street & Smith, editing two of their most famous pulp magazines, Doc Savage and The Shadow. Fellow Street & Smith editor John W. Campbell, the legendary science fiction editor, published Rosmond's sf debut, a story co-written by Lake called "Are You Run-Down, Tired-," in the October 1942 issue of Unknown Worlds and included her story "One Man's Harp" from the August 1943 issue in From Unknown Worlds, an anthology of the best stories from that magazine.

In 1944, she married lawyer Henry Stone, brother of Louis Stone of the brokerage firm Haydn Stone, and uncle of director Oliver Stone. They would be married for the rest of her life and they had two children, one of whom is the writer Gene Stone www.genestone.com, the other is James Stone, founder, CEO and Chairman of The Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation.

Rosmond set her debut novel, The Dewy Dewy Eyes, in the world of pulp magazine publishing, featuring a heroine fresh out of college and an editor-in-chief who plans a new glossy paper publication. Her second novel, A Party for Grown-Ups, was about an affair between a married doctor and a wealthy divorcee. Lucy, or the Delaware Dialogues was about infighting amongst the suburban Delaware family. She also wrote The Children: A Comedy for Grown-Ups, The Lawyers, Error Hurled, and Monarch. She published the satirical novel Diary of a Candid Lady under the name Francis M. Arroway.