Career
Professor Saxton has undertaken biographies of figures as diverse as 1950s bombshell Jayne Mansfield and nineteenth-century author and reformer Louisa May Alcott. Her most recent publication is Being Good: Women"s Moral Values in Early America (Hill and Wang, 2003). She is returning to biography as she embarks on a new project entitled The Widow Washington, on President George Washington"s mother Mary Ball Washington.
She lives in New York City.
The television film The Jayne Mansfield Story featuring Loni Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger was based on her book Jayne Mansfield and the American fifties. Member, Authors" Guild Member, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Secretary of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Executive Board, 1986-1989.
