^ Ann Warren Griffith, 'Subtle TV Ads Expected in '61' Janesville Daily Gazette (January 18, 1961): 24.

^ Henry Cavendish, 'These May Have You Rolling in the Aisle' Chicago Tribune (November 16, 1958): 237.

Walker, ed., Women's Magazines, 1940-1960: Gender Roles and the Popular Press (Spring 2016): 234-241.

^ Ann Griffith, 'The Magazines Women Read' The American Mercury (March 1949), anthologized in Nancy A.

^ Ann Warren Griffith, 'Babes in the Wildflecken Woods' The New Yorker (October 28, 1950): 61.

Seipp, Strangers in the Wild Place: Refugees, Americans, and a German Town, 1945-1952 (Indiana University Press 2013). In 2016 her story 'Captive Audience' was reissued in French, as a monograph.

Ann Warren Griffith died in 1983, in her sixties or early seventies. Personal life Īnn Warren married after World War II. 'Captive Audience' is a satire about overwhelming advertising on mobile devices, appliances, and packaging, and the desperate search for spaces without constant commercial messages. Both stories have been included in several anthologies since publication. Griffith wrote at least two stories in the science fiction genre: 'Zeritsky's Law' ( Galaxy Science Fiction 1951) and 'Captive Audience' ( The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1953). She also wrote about television and advertising in syndicated newspaper articles. 'Ann Warren Griffith must surely be the wackiest of writers ever to set a salty witticism down on paper,' began one review of this compilation. Her comic magazine pieces – with titles like 'How to Make Housework Easy the Hard Way' and 'Gentlemen, Your Tranquilizers are Showing' – were collected in Who Is Hiding in my Hide-a-Bed? (1958). Griffith wrote for The New Yorker, The American Mercury, The Atlantic, and Pegasus (an aviation magazine). After the war, she worked for the Red Cross running a canteen at Wildflecken, an experience she wrote about for The New Yorker. Career ĭuring World War II, she was a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program, graduating from flight school in August 1944. Ann Warren Griffith (died May 11, 1983) was an American writer of humorous essays and science fiction.Īnn Gilman Warren was born in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1911 or 1918 (sources vary on this date).

Zeritsky's Law by Ann Warren Griffith