Clare Booth Luce

Luce, Clare Booth (1903–87), U.S. playwright, editor, and politician. Her most successful play, later made into amovie, was The Women (1936), which satirized wealthy and idle U.S. women. Luce worked in editorial positions at Vogue and Vanity Fair. In 1935 she married Henry Luce, the founder of Time and Life magazines. She served in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Connecticut (1943–47). She was U.S. ambassador to Italy (1953–56) under the Eisenhower administration.