[1] She was the daughter of Helen (nee Neves) and Simpson Mason Carson, a Canadian-born oil operator based in western Kentucky.
[2][3][4] After she spent some time in New York, she began creative writing while living in San Miguel de Allende.
[6][7] She won the Stanford University Dramatists' Alliance's 1960 Miles Anderson Award for her then-unpublished play Open Season.
[1] A resident of the North Beach neighborhood in San Francisco, she later moved westward to Richmond District.
[1] Carson died on November 2, 2002, in San Francisco, aged 83; she had spent her last few months battling throat and mouth cancer.