Had to Choose (1934) starring Buster Crabbe. An embodiment of the post-Victorian independent woman, Forrester pursued her professional career both by choice and economic necessity, managing to balance it with motherhood and the raising of eight children born between 1901 and 1918. Forrester's last book was This One Mad Act: The Unknown Story of John Wilkes Booth and His Family by His Granddaughter (1937), a memoir of her childhood recollections of her mother's and grandmother's connection with John Wilkes Booth. References External links Izola L. Forrester Papers, Schlesinger Library , Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University FictionMags Index -> Stories by: Forrester 1878 births 1944 deaths American women journalists American women screenwriters 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American screenwriters 20th-century American journalists