Chesney and Co. (1915) Emma McChesney stories Cheerful – By Request (1918) Half Portions (1919) Gigolo (1922) Mother Knows Best (1927) They Brought Their Women (1933) Nobody's in Town: Two Short Novels (1938) Contains Nobody's in Town and Trees Die at the Top One Basket: Thirty-One Short Stories (1947) Includes "No Room at the Inn: A Story of Christmas in the World Today" Autobiographies A Peculiar Treasure (1939) A Kind of Magic (1963) Plays Our Mrs. McChesney (1915) (play, with George V. Hobart) $1200 a Year: A Comedy in Three Acts (1920) (play, with Newman Levy) Minick: A Play (1924) (play, with G. S. Kaufman), adapted from her short story "Old Man Minick" The Royal Family (1927) (play, with G. S. Kaufman) Dinner at Eight (1932) (play, with G. S. Kaufman) Stage Door (1936) (play, with G.S. Kaufman) The Land Is Bright (1941) (play, with G. S. Kaufman) Bravo (1949) (play, with G. S. Kaufman) Screenplays Saratoga Trunk (1945) (film, with Casey Robinson) Musical adaptations Show Boat (1927) – music by Jerome Kern, lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Saratoga (1959) – music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, dramatized by Morton DaCosta Giant (2009) – music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa, book by Sybille Pearson References Footnotes Bibliography </ref> Archives External links Online editions 1885 births 1968 deaths 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American short story writers 20th-century American women writers American people of German-Jewish descent American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent American women dramatists and playwrights American women novelists American women short story writers Jewish American dramatists and playwrights Jewish American novelists Jewish women writers Lawrence University alumni Novelists from Michigan Novelists from New York (state) Novelists from Wisconsin Pulitzer Prize for the Novel winners The New Yorker people Writers from Appleton, Wisconsin Writers from Kalamazoo, Michigan Writers from New York City Algonquin Round Table Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters