Mollie Panter-Downes

Mollie Panter-Downes (1906–1997) wrote her first novel, a huge bestseller, when she was only seventeen. She went on to find a more enduring literary fame as a writer for The New Yorker, which published over 850 individual pieces of her coverage of the British home front in WWII. Unfairly overlooked for many years, save for a valiant campaign by Persephone Books (UK), which published two volumes of her wartime writing, Mollie is long overdue a revival.