Cornelia Otis Skinner

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Cornelia Otis Skinner


Born
in Chicago, The United States
December 13, 1901

Died
July 09, 1979

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Cornelia Otis Skinner was an American author and actress. Skinner was the daughter of the actor Otis Skinner and his wife Maud (Durbin) Skinner. After attending the all-girls' Ethel Walker School, and Bryn Mawr College (1918-1919) and studying theatre at the Sorbonne in Paris, she began her career on the stage in 1921. She appeared in several plays before embarking on a tour of the United States from 1926 to 1929 in a one-woman performance of short character sketches she herself wrote. She wrote numerous short humorous pieces for publications like The New Yorker. These pieces were eventually compiled into a series of books, including Nuts in May, Dithers and Jitters, Excuse It Please!, and The Ape In Me, among others.
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Our Hearts Were Young and G...

4.06 avg rating — 2,264 ratings — published 1942 — 63 editions
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Madame Sarah

3.78 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1966 — 45 editions
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Nuts in May

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3.93 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1950 — 8 editions
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Elegant Wits and Grand Hori...

3.97 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1962 — 13 editions
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Excuse It, Please!

3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1936 — 21 editions
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The Ape in Me

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Soap Behind the Ears

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Dithers and Jitters

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Bottoms Up!

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Family Circle

4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1948 — 6 editions
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“Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.”
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“Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. ”
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“There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.”
Cornelia Otis Skinner, Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals

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