Biografia

Invented daytime radio soap operas followed by television.

Received a Masters Degree from the University of Wisconsin.

The first radio program she sold, to WGN in Chicago, was a ten-minute program "A Thought For Today".

The third soap opera she created, this time for NBC, was her breakout hit "The Guiding Light".

Her fourth, fifth & sixth radio soap operas were "The Road To Life", "The Right To Happiness" and "Woman In White". By the 1940s her annual salary was $300,000 per year ($4 million in 2020 dollars).