1966 Press Photo Monica Dickens, author of The Room Upstairs. - noa94132

Monica Dickens is the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, the daughter of a barrister, a debutante presented to the Court, and a best-selling writer. With the publication of her first novel in an American setting, she adds another notch to her gun. "The Room Upstairs" takes place in Massachusetts and makes an unusual combination of the humorous and the macabre. Miss Dickens, married to an American, has lived in Falmouth, Massachusetts for twelve years.

Photo is dated 1966.

Photo measures 7 x 9.5 inches.