
It was in California that Bristow would write some of her most successful novels including the Louisiana plantation novels: Deep Summer in 1937, The Handsome Road in 1938, and This Side of Glory in 1940.īristow as born in 1903 in Marion, South Carolina. The couple were called to Hollwyood after RKO Pictures bought the film rights to The Ninth Guest with the intention of having the two write the script for the movie. Her first novel, The Invisible Host, was written with Bruce Manning published in 1930 and ended up being adapted into a Broadway play called The Ninth Guest. They would go on to write books together including The Invisible Host. She met another journalist named Bruce Manning and the two soon began dating, and then marrying. During her career she wrote multiple stories and found success both in literature and in Hollywood.

Gwen Bristow was an American author and journalist who passed away in 1980.
