Adela Rogers St. Johns was an author, screenwriter, and journalist whose long career followed a variety of topics from sports, politics, and the movies.
She won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1970.
Books in order of publication:
The Skyrocket (Cosmopolitan, 1925) [novel]
A Free Soul (Cosmopolitan, 1927) [novel]
The Single Standard (Grosset & Dunlap, 1928) [novelization of her screenplay]
Field of Honor (E.P. Dutton, 1938) [novel]
The Root of All Evil (E.P. Dutton, 1940) [novel]
Never Again, and Other Stories (Doubleday, 1949)
How to Write a Story and Sell It (Doubleday, 1956)
Affirmative Prayers in Action (Dodd, Mead, 1957)
First Step up Toward Heaven: Hubert Eaton and Forest Lawn (Prentice-Hall, 1959)
Final Verdict (Doubleday, 1962) [biography of her father, Earl Rogers]
Tell No Man (Doubleday, 1966) [novel]
The Honeycomb (Doubleday, 1969) [autobiography]
Some are Born Great (Doubleday, 1974) [stories about great women the author had known]
Love, Laughter, and Tears: My Hollywood Story (Doubleday, 1978) [memoir]
No Good-byes: My Search into Life Beyond Death (McGraw-Hill, 1982)
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