Rosalind Coward was born in 1905 and educated at the North London Collegiate School. She then studied at Cambridge University from 1925 to 1929 where she became a member of the Girton College Dramatic Society. In 1931 she moved to Paris where she met her future husband, actor Laurence Olivier. They married in 1936 and had two children, Amanda and David
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She started writing plays for the stage in 1938 and had two plays performed at the Hampstead Theatre Club, a first for a woman playwright. In 1942 Coward published her first novel, The Painted Veil, which was a best-seller. In 1947 she turned her attention to poetry and began publishing books of that genre.
Rosalind Coward died on May 14, 1977 from cancer that was diagnosed shortly after the publication of her last book of poetry, Going Out on a Limb.