She also contributed articles, fiction and poetry to magazines including The Writer, McCall's, Ladies Home Journal and Cosmopolitan.
[12][13][14] Novelist Julian Street judged it "quite a surprising performance for so young a writer,"[15] while poet Isidor Schneider, reviewing the book for the New York Herald Tribune, observed:The breaking up of a unified family, always to be foreseen, but nevertheless painful for that, is rendered with delicate insight and fine honest feeling.
In time spared from Society she has written a clever novel (Bright Is the Morning, 1934)....[18]In 1952, 20th Century Fox purchased Williams' story, May the Best Wife Win,[19] originally published in the July 1950 issue of McCall's.
In 1963, MGM purchased the rights to Williams' not-yet completed novel, The Company Girls, with Joe Pasternak to produce and screenwriter George Wells to do the adaptation.
Williams died of a stroke on December 5, 1991, at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, having been predeceased by her husband in 1984.