Kathryn Forbes, a pseudonym for Kathryn Anderson McClean, was born on March 10, 1909, in San Francisco, Calif. and educated at Mount View High School. Forbes's book of short stories, Mama's Bank Account (1943), was dramatized by John Van Druten, produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstien II, and reached the Music Box Theater on Broadway as "I Remember Mama" in 1944. It was adapted to film in 1948 and became a popular television show for the Columbia Broadcasting Company, running from 1949 to 1957. Forbes's other work includes Transfer Point (1947) as well as magazine articles and radio scripts.