Autor/-in: Olive Higgins Prouty

Olive Higgins Prouty (1882-1974) was an American novelist whose fiction explored women's emotional lives, social aspiration, and the pressures of domestic responsibility in the early twentieth century. Best known for Stella Dallas, her work frequently examined class mobility, maternal devotion, and personal resilience within changing American society. Prouty's novels remain valued for their psychological insight and measured realism.