Leane Zugsmith (January 18, 1903 – October 13, 1969) was an American novelist and short story writer who frequently wrote about the economically disadvantaged and the shortcomings of capitalism.
Despite her father's pleading to return to Atlantic city, she got a job at Smith and Street publishers as an editor for their detective and western magazines.
It is about one day in the life of a wealth society woman in New York City, an idea that Zugsmith said she borrowed from Virginia Woof.
[3] She and playwright Carl Randau formed a salon, where she entertained guests such as Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, Heywood Broun, and Louis Kronenberger.
[5] The Summer Soldier is about a civil rights committee that investigates allegations of violence against workers in a southern town.