Ida Alexa Ross Wylie
Novelist, Film story contributor
1885 – 1959
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Who was Ida Alexa Ross Wylie?
Ida Alexa Ross Wylie, also Ida Alena Ross Wylie, born 16 March 1885 in Melbourne, died 4 November 1959 in Princeton, New Jersey, usually known by her pen name I. A. R. Wylie, was an Australian-British-American novelist, screenwriter, magazine writer and poet. She is probably best known as the author of the novel that became the basis of the film Keeper of the Flame, directed by George Cukor and starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. More than 30 of her works were made into films between 1915 and 1953.
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- Born
- Mar 16, 1885
Melbourne - Also known as
- I. A. R. Wylie
- Ida Alena Ross Wylie
- Ida A.R. Wylie
- Miss I.A.R. Wylie
- "Uncle"
- Parents
- Nationality
- Australia
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Nov 4, 1959
Princeton
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on July 23, 2013
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