Margaret Ayer Barnes nació el 16 de junio de 1886 en Chicago, Illinois, Estados Unidos. Murió el 25 de octubre de 1967 en Cambridge, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos.
At age 40 she broke her back in a traffic accident. She took up writing
as a way to occupy her time. Between 1926 and 1930 she wrote several
short stories and three plays, including an adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence". In 1931 she won the Pulitzer
Prize for her first novel, "Years of Grace".
