She wrote 15 novels and several volumes of short stories. She also worked as a Hollywood scriptwriter in the 1940s, contributing to Madame Curie and the John Ford/John Wayne war movie, They Were Expendable.
Her first novel, Seven Poor Men of Sydney\ (1934) told of radicals dockworkers, but she was not a practitioner of social realism.
Her best-known novel, The Man Who Loved Children was based on her own life (the title is ironic) and was published in 1940. It was not until the poet Randall Jarrell wrote the introduction for a new American edition in 1965 that the novel achieved its proper fame.
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