Paula Schwartz (1925-2003) was an American playwright and novelist.
[1][2] Schwartz was born in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City.
[1][3] Schwartz taught drama and English and drama in New York and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1965 where she taught English at Dunbarton College of Holy Cross, Washington, D.C., a women's college.
[1][2] Schwartz's musical, An Accident At Lyme, an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, was staged in Baltimore in 1986 by Theatre Hopkins.
[2] Schwartz collaborated with composers Neil Moyer and Howard Levetsky on several musical projects.