Bryna Ivens Untermeyer
American writer and editor
Bryna Ivens Untermeyer (August 27, 1909 - March 1985) was an American writer and editor. She was an editor for She and Seventeen, from which she also edited story collections. She also edited collections of children stories with her husband poet Louis Untermeyer and wrote a book about one of their cats from its perspective, Memoir for Mrs. Sullavan.
Untermeyer was fiction and feature editor at Seventeen until 1948.
She is credited as a writer for the 1941 film Murder on Lenox Avenue. Untermeyer wrote Memoir for Mrs. Sullivan about her family's cat. She edited Sorry Dear, an illustrated collection of sayings from famous authors.
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Bryna Ivens married poet Louis Untermeyer in 1948, though the legal status of the marriage was contested.
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