Okay, I've never heard of her either.
But now I'm interested.
Rediscovering Ursula Parrott and ‘Ex-Wife’
Born Katherine Ursula Towle, “lace-curtain Irish” in Dorchester, Mass., and educated at Radcliffe, she longed to be a reporter, and married one, Lindesay Parrott, who later worked for The New York Times. Their divorce would inspire “Ex-Wife,” the most successful of her 20 books. Unable to get hired by sexist editors, Parrott would become so famous with her fiction, magazine writing and movie deals — and for just being that relative novelty, an ex-wife — that they were compelled to cover her.
https://silk-news.com/2023/04/30/art...t-and-ex-wife/
The Divorce Novel That Captured the Mores of Jazz Age
https://www.newyorker.com/books/seco...z-age-new-york
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