An American nonfiction author, she is best known for her biographies of celebrities. She most notably profiled Judy Garland, Vivien Leigh, and Princess Diana.
She attended both the University of California-Los Angeles and Southern Methodist University. During the 1940s, she worked as a television writer and screenwriter with MGM.
In 1968, she published a bestselling novel called The Survivors.
She was born in Port Chester, New York, and she later settled in Los Angeles, California.
She published a biography of Princess Diana.