Rose was born into a Jewish family in Vilna, in what was then the Russian Empire.
Her father, Morris Libman, emigrated to the U.S. in 1907, and Rose and her mother and sister followed the next year, settling in Chicago, Illinois.
[2] The pair moved to New York together in 1924, and married in 1926 after his divorce from his first wife was finalized.
[3][4] Over the course of her career as a writer, she wrote a number of original stage plays[5] and novels;[6] she also authored the 1942 film noir Fingers at the Window.
[9] During World War II, she went to work on the assembly line at an aviation plant.