Biography

Maritta M. Wolff was born on December 25, 1918 in Grass Lake, Michigan, USA. Maritta M. was a writer, known for The Man I Love (1946) and Whistle Stop (1946). Maritta M. was married to Leonard Stegman and Hubert Skidmore. Maritta M. died on July 1, 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

In the 1950s, she moved to Los Angeles. She published four novels after "Night Shift", then apparently stopped writing. However, after her death, a manuscript was found stored in her refrigerator. (The refrigerator was a place where the manuscript would likely survive a house fire.) She had completed it in the early 1970s, but it was not published. Her family took the manuscript to Scribner, which published it in 2005 as "Sudden Rain".

She attended the University of Michigan and majored in English. She wrote an 830-page manuscript for a composition class that won the university's 1940 Avery Hopwood Prize for writing. It also caught a publisher's attention, and became a blockbuster novel, "Whistle Stop".

Child (with Stegman): son Hugh.