She attended primary school in her native city from 1915 to 1916, but continued in Bucharest after fleeing home at the onset of Romania's involvement in World War I.
[1] Her writings for the first two decades after the 1944 Romanian coup d'état were strongly influenced by the prevailing socialist realist style and content of the first part of the communist regime.
Some of these were substantially revised in later years: Cad zidurile, 1950 (this became Cartea Mironei in 1965 and Mirona in 1975); Cântecul uzinei, 1950; S-a dumirit și Moș Ilie, 1950; Surorile, 1951; Cantemiriștii, 1954; Fetele lui Barotă, 1958 (reissued as Iubiri paralele in 1974); Gențiane, 1970.
Her 1977 memoir Pe firul de păianjen al memoriei deals with her artistic training and the process of writing her debut novel.
Among the magazines that published her work were Reporter, Revista Fundațiilor Regale, Democrația (where she had a film and theatre column), Viața Românească, Femeia, Căminul, Flacăra and România Literară.