- Margaret Ayer Barnes was born on June 16, 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Margaret Ayer was a writer, known for Westward Passage (1932), The Age of Innocence (1934) and Dishonored Lady (1947). Margaret Ayer died on October 25, 1967 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- 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".
- Attended Bryn Mawr College.
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