She wrote a biography of California Attorney General Robert W. Kenny, who had defended the Hollywood Ten before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
The latter, based on the Soviet play Pobyeda by Ilya Vershinin and Mikhail Ruderman, ran on Broadway from February to April 1943.
Besides writing for stage and screen, Stevenson also lectured in drama at the University of Southern California from 1951 to 1953, but was fired for her alleged ties to the Communist Party.
She wrote under the pseudonym Janice Stevens on The Man from Cairo (1953), and was an uncredited co-writer of The Law vs. Billy the Kid (1954).
She also was president of the Oregon Women's Political Caucus for many years and helped found the North Coast chapter of the organization.
In 1970, his contract was not renewed by the Astoria School Board because of his involvement in the peace movement and his use of controversial materials in his psychology classes.
He appealed to the American Association of University Professors, but their decision was still pending when he died later in 1970 in a boating accident on the Columbia River Bar.
Her last published book, The Slope, is based on episodes from the life of Bethenia Angelina Owens-Adair, the first woman doctor in Oregon.
[9] In 1938, Janet Stevenson won a John Golden Fellowship in playwriting; her fellow recipient that year was Tennessee Williams.