Marjorie Torrey


Marjorie Torrey Hood Chanslor.
Chanslor was born in Brooklyn in 1891 to William A. Hood and Caroline Lincoln Torrey.
In 1911, she married Thomas Murray Bevans in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was previously married to Anna Fessenden Bradley. They had a son, Tom Torre Bevans, who renewed copyright to several of her books in the 1970s. Her son was married to Margaret Van Doren Bevans, also a writer and illustrator.
She married secondly screenwriter Roy Edwin Chanslor, who wrote The Menace. In April 1935, she was fined $1,450 for throwing a cocktail at screenwriter Lon Young at a New Year's Eve party at the Cafe Trocadero nightclub in Los Angeles.
She died September 1, 1964 in Manhattan, age 72. There was no service, per her request.

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