Born into a Jewish family in Bacău, her parents were Lazăr Cassvan and his wife Janeta Alter Con.
[1] Besides short stories and novels, she wrote much children's literature, as well as a romanticized biography of Dimitrie Cantemir, the 1963 Între pană și spadă.
Her 1933 30 de zile în studio was among the first books of reportages in the country,[2] and also represented an early example of Romanian-language works about the cinema.
[3] Her plays were Măștile destinului (performed at the Iași National Theatre and at Paris' Théâtre Albert-Ier), Una sau mai multe femei and Calvar.
Her children's plays were Niță, Nuța și Lăbuș, and În țara trântorilor; they appeared in Iași and in Bucharest.