Anita Loos (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
Early Life
Corinne Anita Loos was born on April 26, 1893?, in Sissons (later Mount Shasta), California, to Minerva and R. Beers Loos. “Minnie” Loos was a proper, patient wife who socially abided the flamboyant, philandering ways of her husband, an itinerant journalist whose wanderlust led him to one small-town California newspaper after another. The wayward father also loved everything theatrical. A self-proclaimed “Edwin Booth of amateur theatre,” he opened (and closed) as many drama societies as he did newspapers.
When a San Francisco weekly, Music and...
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