Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Tess Slesinger sits at a desk feeding a ream of paper into the typewriter, looking into the distance. Miss Slesinger's writing style has been compared to Dorothy Parker, catapulting into fame due to the immense success of her books within the last year and her work attributed to short stories in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Scribner's and others. Photograph appears with the article, "Films Lure New Writer," Los Angeles Times, 25 July 1935: 7. Text from negative sleeve: 1315 - Tess Slesinger author 7-23-35 [stamped:] Jul 31 1935 Handwritten on negative: Tess Slesinger Author 7-23-35 Text from newspaper caption: Tess Slesinger, best seller author, engaged as writer by M.-G.-M., arrives in Hollywood.
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