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Elaine Dundy was born in New York City. She was an American novelist, biographer, journalist, actress and playwright. She studied art history at Mills College in Oakland, Calif, for a year before transferring to Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar, Virginia, where she earned a degree in 1943. After graduating from Sweet Briar College in 1943 she worked as an actress in Paris and, later, London, where she met her future husband, the theater critic Kenneth Tynan. Dundy wrote three novels, The Dud Avocado, The Old Man and Me, and The Injured Party; a play, My Place; biographies of Elvis Presley and the actor Peter Finch; a study of Ferriday, Louisiana; and a memoir, Life Itself!