Spoiler : Bailey, Anne Howard Born 7/26/1924 in Memphis, Tennessee (exact birth is unknown, but is believed she was born within hours of being found on the doorstep of he adoptive parents). Died November 24, 2006 of congestive heart failure in the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California. She began her career as a teenager acting on stage. Graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis, then moved to New York where she became a writer for television including episodes of Armstrong Circle Theatre; Star Tonight; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents; Bonanza; National Velvet; 87the Precinct; Family.

Spoiler : Although never married, she was the creator of the short lived TV series, How to Survive A Marriage (1974).Head writer for soaps General Hospital and Days Of Our Lives in the 1980s. Winner of a 1989 Emmy Award for writing Santa Barbara.

Spoiler : She wrote the libretto for the opera Desert, with music by Leonard Kastle, which was telecast on the NBC Opera Theatre in 1961. Bailey earned an Emmy Award in 1972 for writing the libretto for the opera Mary Lincoln with composer Thomas Pasatieri. She returned to working in opera in 1989, working with composer Kenton Coe on Rachel, a love story of former US President Andrew Jackson and his wife, that premiered with the Knoxville Opera Company in 1989.