Viña Delmar (1903-1990) was one of the boldest and most talked-about writers of early twentieth-century America. A novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, she burst onto the literary scene in 1928 with her sensational debut novel Bad Girl, a book that shocked the censors, captivated the public, and became a bestselling cultural phenomenon.Known for her fearless portrayals of women, class, and desire, Delmar's fiction captured the real emotional struggles of a generation caught between the strict morals of the past and the thrilling freedoms of the Jazz Age. Her work brought raw realism, feminist insight, and cinematic flair to modern fiction long before those ideas became mainstream.After Bad Girl became an Academy Award-winning film, Delmar went on to write several other successful novels and screenplays, including Kept Woman, Loose Ladies, and The Awful Truth, which became a Hollywood classic starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.Rediscovered today, Viña Delmar stands as a trailblazing voice of women's independence and social realism, a writer whose work still feels strikingly modern-passionate, daring, and unafraid to tell the truth about love and life.