Juliet Ashby

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Juliet Ashby is a pseudonym of Louise Outlaw-Shallit. Born Louise Lee Outlaw, she wrote under her maiden name and several different pseudonyms, including Lee Canaday and Juliet Ashby. Louise became the first woman reporter for the Florence (S.C.) Evening Star and sold her first story to the New York Daily News at age 19. Later, she moved to Philadelphia, where she became a reporter for the Philadelphia Record (now defunct). Louise wrote short stories for many magazines, including Story, Collier's, Detective Tales, Cosmopolitan, Fantastic, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, and Reader's Digest. In the 1960's, she also wrote many feature stories for the Philadelphia Bulletin's Sunday Magazine, including an interview with Jackie Gleason. She married Joseph Shallit, a journalist and author, on April 11, 1944. In the 1980's, Louise wrote romance novels. Her books were translated into French, German, Italian, and Japanese. She also wrote a history of the Mutual Beneficial Association of Penn Central Employees. Source: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/louise.html