Vera Caspary

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Vera Caspary (November 13, 1899 - June 13, 1987) was an American writer. She wrote novels, screenplays and short stories. Her 1943 novel Laura was turned into a highly successful movie directed by Otto Preminger.

Caspary's first novels, largely stories of plucky young women fending for themselves, lacked the element of mystery that sparked her greatest success. Then, starting with Laura and Bedelia and continuing through The Man Who Loved His Wife, she created a string of mystery novels characterized by psychological menace. Evidently tiring of the genre, she wrote longer novels at the end of her career and used multiple protagonists. Her late work includes The Rosecrest Cell (about American communists) and The Dreamers. She also wrote a brief autobiography, The Secrets of Grown-ups.

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