Background
Kazan was born in Orange, New Jersey, the daughter of Emma Cecelia (née Erkenbrecher) and Alfred Beaumont Thacher, a lawyer, and the granddaughter of Elizabeth (Day) and classicist and college administrator Thomas Anthony Thacher.
Kazan was born in Orange, New Jersey, the daughter of Emma Cecelia (née Erkenbrecher) and Alfred Beaumont Thacher, a lawyer, and the granddaughter of Elizabeth (Day) and classicist and college administrator Thomas Anthony Thacher.
Her uncle was lawyer Thomas Thacher. She was the first wife of the acclaimed and controversial film director Elia Kazan. She wrote the following plays:
The Egghead
Rosemary
The Alligator.