Betty Smith AKA Sophina Elisabeth Wehner Born: 15-Dec-1896 Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY Died: 17-Jan-1972 Location of death: Shelton, CT Cause of death: Pneumonia Remains: Buried, Legion Street Cemetery, Chapel Hill, NC
Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States Executive summary: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Father: John Wehner (b. 1874, d. 21-Dec-1915) Mother: Katie Hummel Wehner (b. 1877) Brother: William Sister: Regina Sister: Maggie (b. 1901, d. 1902) Father: Michael Keogh (stepfather) Husband: George H.E. Smith (m. 6-Jun-1919, div. 1938, d. 14-Dec-1962, heart attack) Daughter: Nancy (b. 11-Nov-1922) Daughter: Mary Husband: Joe Jones (m. 7-Aug-1943, div. 1951) Boyfriend: Alan (1949-50) Husband: Robert Finch (m. 1957, d. Feb-1959, heart attack)
High School: Girl's High School University: University of Michigan University: Yale University Teacher: New Haven College (1933)
Nervous Breakdown 1948 German Ancestry
Risk Factors: Insomnia, Smoking
Author of books:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943, novel) Tomorrow Will Be Better (1947, novel) Maggie-Now (1958, novel) Joy in the Morning (1963, novel)
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