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Margaret Woodward Smith Shane lived in a world of writers
She was born in 1895 in Indiana, attended the University of Chicago and worked for newspapers in Chicago and St. Paul before marrying the writer Thomas A. Boyd. In 1922, her first novel, The Love Legend, written under the penname Woodward Boyd, became a best-seller. A year later she produced Lazy Laughter and then The Unpaid Piper (1927). Divorcing Boyd in 1929, she married another writer, Ted Shane and, as Peggy Shane produced more novels including Tangled Wives (1932) and Change Partners (1934). In 1941, she and Arthur Sheckman wrote Mr. Big, a Broadway show directed by George F. Kaufman and starring Hume Cronyn and Fay Wray. Tangled Wives is an unusual love story, as much an action adventure as it is about self discovery and love. Out of print for more than 75 years, this is a book that modern readers can and will enjoy. It is well written, fast paced, and at times quite funny even as its many mysteries unfold.
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