Nancy Freedman

Nancy Freedman was born Nancy Mars, in Evanston, Illinois on July 4, 1920. She started acting professionally at the age of 3 in local children's stage productions. As a teenager, she toured in director Max Reinhardt's productions of Faust, The Miracle and Six Characters in Search of an Author. She stopped acting after she married Benedict Freedman in 1941. She wrote numerous books with her husband. Their first novel, Mrs. Mike, was published in 1947. In 1949, it was adapted into a film starring Dick Powell and Evelyn Keyes. Their other works include The Spark and the Exodus, The Search for Joyful, and Kathy Little Bird. She also wrote several books on her own including The Immortals, Joshua Son of None, and Sappho: The Tenth Muse. She died of temporal arteritis on August 10, 2010 at the age of 90.