Ann Warren Griffith (June 3, 1918 - May 11, 1983) was an American writer of humorous essays and science fiction.
Early life
Ann Gilman Warren was born in
Newton, Massachusetts, in 1911 or 1918 (sources vary on this date). She attended
Barnard College.
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Career
During
World War II, she was a member of the
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, graduating from flight school in August 1944. After the war, she worked for the Red Cross running a canteen at
Wildflecken
Wildflecken is a municipality in the Bad Kissingen district, at the border of northwestern Bavaria and southern Hesse. In 2005, its population was 3,285; the postal code is 97772 (US Forces used APO NY 09026 until July 15, 1991, when APO/FPO/ ...
, an experience she wrote about for ''
The New Yorker''.
Griffith wrote for ''The New Yorker'', ''
The American Mercury'', ''
The Atlantic'', and ''Pegasus'' (an aviation magazine). Her comic magazine pieces – with titles like "How to Make Housework Easy the Hard Way" and "Gentlemen, Your Tranquilizers are Showing" – were collected in ''Who Is Hiding in my Hide-a-Bed?'' (1958). "Ann Warren Griffith must surely be the wackiest of writers ever to set a salty witticism down on paper," began one review of this compilation. She also wrote about television and advertising in syndicated newspaper articles.
Griffith wrote at least two stories in the science fiction genre: "Zeritsky's Law" (''
Galaxy Science Fiction'' 1951) and "Captive Audience" (''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' 1953). Both stories have been included in several anthologies since publication. "Captive Audience" is a satire about overwhelming advertising on mobile devices, appliances, and packaging, and the desperate search for spaces without constant commercial messages.
Personal life
Ann Warren married after World War II. Ann Warren Griffith died in 1983, in her sixties or early seventies.
In 2016 her story "Captive Audience" was reissued in French, as a monograph.
[Ann Warren Griffith, ''Audience Captive'' (Le Passager Clandestin 2016). ]
References
External links
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* Ann Warren Griffith
''Who is Hiding in my Hide-a-Bed?''(Simon & Schuster 1958).
* Ann Warren Griffith
"You Can't Get a Man with a Plane"''The New Yorker'' (October 20, 1951): 67.
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1983 deaths
American women writers
American science fiction writers
Barnard College alumni
Women Airforce Service Pilots personnel