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Ann Warren Griffith
Best known for sharp, funny essays and a couple of memorable science-fiction stories, this American writer brought wit to everything from housework and television to the strange pressures of modern advertising. Her life also included wartime service as a Women Airforce Service Pilot, giving her work an unusual mix of humor, range, and real-world experience.
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Zeritsky's Law
by Ann Warren Griffith
About the author
Born Ann Gilman Warren, she was an American writer remembered for humorous essays and science fiction. Sources agree that she studied at Barnard College, and they describe her as publishing lively work across both mainstream magazines and genre fiction.
During World War II, she served in the Women Airforce Service Pilots program and graduated from flight school in August 1944. After the war, she worked for the Red Cross in Wildflecken, Germany, later drawing on that experience in writing for The New Yorker.
She also wrote for The American Mercury, The Atlantic, and Pegasus. Her comic magazine pieces were collected in Who Is Hiding in my Hide-a-Bed? (1958), and her science-fiction stories include "Zeritsky's Law" and "Captive Audience," the latter noted for its satirical take on nonstop advertising and media overload.