In 1975 her daughter was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the fatal beating she gave her mother in a Miami hospital room. Mary had been ill with leukemia at the time her daughter attacked her.
Play "Life Begins" was based on her experiences in a hospital maternity ward during the birth of her daughter.
Her husband was a professor of economics.
Worked on behalf of women's suffrage.
Author, playwright, poet and real estate developer.