Olive Higgins Prouty

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Olive Higgins Prouty (10 January 1882 – March 24, 1974) was an American novelist and poet best known for her 1922 book Stella Dallas and her pioneering study of psychotherapy in her 1941 novel Now, Voyager.

Life and influence

Olive Higgins, a 1904 Smith College graduate and married Louis Prouty in 1907, the couple married in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1908.

According to the Clark University Archives and Special Collections, Prouty was reported to have suffered from a nervous breakdown that lasted almost two years in 1894. Prouty suffered from another nervous breakdown in 1925 after her daughter Olivia's death in 1923.

Friends of Clark University's Goddard Library published Between the Barnacles and Bayberries: and Other Poems in 1997, after her children Richard and Jane's poetry collection was accepted for publication. Prouty wrote her memoirs in 1961 but, as her public image had declined, she could not find a publisher who would print them at her own expense.

Prouty is also known for her philanthropic writings and her blossoming connection with writer Sylvia Plath, whom she encountered as a result of a Smith College award for "promising young writers." In the aftermath of Plath's failed 1953 suicide attempt, she aided Plath financially: Ted Hughes, Plath's husband, would later tell Birthday Letters how "Prouty was there, tender, and buoyant moon." Many, including Plath's mother, Aurelia, have maintained the belief that Plath used her memories of Prouty as the basis of her 1963 book, The Bell Jar, a woman who has been in an asylum as well" as a role model who is ultimately rejected by the protagonist.

The Olive Higgins Prouty Foundation, Inc., is listed on the website of the Olive Higgins Prouty Foundation, Inc.

Stella Dallas was turned into a stage play in 1924, a movie in 1925 and a 1937 melodrama starring Barbara Stanwyck, which was nominated for two Academy Awards. It was remade in 1990 starring Bette Midler. Despite Prouty's court efforts, who had not permitted the selling of the broadcast rights and was dissatisfied with her characters' portrayals, a derivative radio serial was broadcast daily for 18 years. Now, Voyager was turned into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Bette Davis, as well as a a radio drama starring Ida Lupino and produced by Cecil B. de Mille on the Lux Radio Theater, as well as a a radio drama starring Ida Lupino and directed by Irving Rapper in an acclaimed, Academy Award-nominated film directed by Irving Rapper and starring Bette Davis in an acclaimed, Academy Award-nomino

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