Worth Tuttle Hedden

Worth Tuttle Hedden (born Ella Worth Tuttle; January 10, 1896 – September 14, 1985) was an American novelist and journalist. She published four novels in the 1940s and 1950s, including Wives of High Pasture (1944), The Other Room (1947, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award), Love is a Wound (1952), and Two and Three Make One (1956, under pen name Winifred Woodley); prior to novels, she wrote short stories and essays on women and African Americans for magazines. Educated at Trinity College and Columbia University School of Journalism, she advocated for civil rights and held various secretarial and teaching positions.