Gladys Fornell

Gladys Fornell (1904–1982) was the writer of several successful plays, including an adaptation of The Emperor's New Clothes and Puss in Boots, both performed off-Broadway. Fornell was a lifelong writer and editor, first formally trained at the University of Minnesota. She went on to work with the Colorado Writers' Conference in 1948 and the artists’ community, Yaddo.[1] She worked for the Princeton University Press for several years and spent most of her life in New York City.

Fornell was originally a fiction writer, showing promise with her unpublished novel, Montel, but after years of rejection, tried her hand at writing plays.[2] She wrote several musicals in the 1950s and 1960s with the composer Richard d’Honau. Additionally, she wrote a family history entitled Nils Fornell Wisconsin Pioneer. She spent the end of her life in Illinois, where she died in 1982.

References

  1. ^ "Our Artists". Corporation of Yaddo. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  2. ^ Henthorne, Tess (2016-01-01). "From Archives to Code: Gladys Fornell's Montel". Senior Independent Study Theses.
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