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- Rachel Crothers (December 12, 1870 - July 5, 1958) was an American playwright and theater director known for her well-crafted plays that often dealt with feminist themes. Among theater historians, she is generally recognized as "the most successful and prolific woman dramatist writing in the first part of the twentieth century."
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- Was considered the leading female playwright of her day.
- Her original ambition was to be an actress.
- During the Second World War she founded the American Theater Wing to aid British war relief and later the Stage Door Canteen, a recreational center for servicemen in New York City.
- Remembered for her award winning play "When Ladies Meet" and "Susan of God".
- "Miss Crothers had no close relatives," according to The New York Times.
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