The couple would go on to have five children and by 1954 the family was settled in Connecticut. Army Air Corps and whom she had known in Larchmont. Greene, who had been a B-29 pilot in the U.S. She worked her way up from there, soon earning a position as a reporter for the AP’s city desk during WWII, where favorite assignments included interviewing Frank Sinatra and Marlene Dietrich, who had each been on a USO tour. A job.” She landed one in the mailroom at the Associated Press in New York. But after two years of study, Greene left college in 1944, noting in her Something About the Author autobiography that “what I craved, what I needed, was a taste of the real world. Greene grew up in Larchmont, and upon graduating from Marymount School in Manhattan, she enrolled at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in 1942. Mabel Clarke was the first movie critic for the New York Daily News, the same newspaper where Richard Clarke served as managing editor. Greene was born on Octoin Manhattan, the second daughter of Mabel and Richard Clarke, both journalists. Greene, best known for such notable middle grade novels as A Girl Named Al and Beat the Turtle Drum, died on April 7 at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford, Conn.
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