Clare Boothe Luce was an American writer, politician, diplomat, and public conservative figure. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast.

She spent 33 years on the two-volume biography, examining 460,000 items at the Library of Congress that stretched 319 linear feet. By Katharine Q. Seelye When Sylvia Jukes Morris was writing her ...

Clare Boothe Luce was an American author, politician, US Ambassador and notable public conservative figure. She was the first American woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad. Wikipedia* ...

Simple, but elegant was the way that Clare Boothe Luce ordered her surroundings. The second wife of Time, Life publisher Henry R. Luce, she was mistress of a 59-acre estate in Stamford, Conn., and a 7 ...

Sylvia Jukes Morris, a British-born biographer of first lady Edith Roosevelt and playwright-diplomat Clare Boothe Luce, whose lives she chronicled in lucid prose and meticulous detail, died Jan. 5 in ...