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- Birth nameGeorgianna Randolph Craig
- Craig Rice was born on June 5, 1908 in Illinois, USA. She was a writer, known for Home, Sweet Homicide (1946), The Underworld Story (1950) and Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950). She was married to Paul Byron Bishop, Henry Warren de Mott, Jr., Lawrence Lipton and Arthur John Follows. She died on August 28, 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpousesPaul Byron Bishop(June 5, 1950 - August 10, 1957) (divorced)Henry Warren de Mott, Jr.(April 30, 1948 - August 25, 1949) (divorced)Lawrence Lipton(March 31, 1940 - April 23, 1947) (divorced)Arthur John Follows(October 28, 1927 - 1931) (divorced, 2 children)
- Ghost-wrote the novel "Crime On My Hands" which starred real-life persona George Sanders (who worked with Rice on the Falcon series). In the novel, actor Sanders solves a murder on a film set.
- The "Author's Dedication" of the novel she ghost-wrote for George Sanders is "For Craig Rice, without whom it would not have been possible".
- Generally accepted as the ghost-writer for Gypsy Rose Lee's "The G-String Murders". An article in "The Armchair Detective" in the 1980s suggests otherwise, but presents no definitive evidence. A 2001 biography of Rice ("Who Was That Lady?: Craig Rice, Queen of the Screwball Mystery") refutes the ghostwriting claim by showing that Lee and Rice were not in the same locale during the 1940-1941 time frame.
- 3 Children: daughters Nancy Melville Follows (June 26, 1928) and Iris Patricia Follows (June 25, 1929) from her first marriage; son David Elton Ferguson (April 8, 1932) was born from a relationship with Albert Ferguson. They never married, as he never divorced his first wife.
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