Phyllis Duganne

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Phyllis Duganne (1899–1976),{{cite web |title=Collection: Phyllis Duganne papers |url=https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/resources/1029 |website=Smith College Finding Aids |access-date=6 August 2023}} also known as Phyllis Duganne Given, was a writer in the United States. She wrote stories for newspapers, novels, poems, and plays.{{Cite web|url=https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n90719514/|title=Duganne, Phyllis [WorldCat Identities]}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tyghAQAAIAAJ&dq=phyllis+duganne&pg=PA1141|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series|first=Library of Congress Copyright|last=Office|date=August 31, 1952|via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AyQhAQAAIAAJ&dq=phyllis+duganne&pg=PA1148|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1966: January-June|first=Library of Congress Copyright|last=Office|date=August 31, 1968|publisher=Copyright Office, Library of Congress|via=Google Books}} Some of her works were adapted to film.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba8bef10d|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220831142449/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba8bef10d|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 31, 2022|title=Phyllis Duganne|website=BFI}}

She had various paramours.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bOLB5nbNiGsC&dq=phyllis+duganne&pg=PA281|title=Dos Passos: A Life|first=Virginia Spencer|last=Carr|date=November 11, 2004|publisher=Northwestern University Press|isbn=9780810122000 |via=Google Books}} She was the first wife of fighter pilot and journalist Austin Parker.{{Cite web|url=http://dgmweb.net/FGS/P/ParkerAustin-PhyllisDuganne.html|title=Austin PARKER & Phyllis DUGANNE|website=dgmweb.net}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V6w9EAAAQBAJ&dq=phyllis+duganne&pg=PT78|title=The Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Cod Story, 1910-1960|first=John Taylor|last=Williams|date=May 17, 2022|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=9780374722623 |via=Google Books}} She subsequently married Eben Given. She had a daughter. Duganne's sister performed internationally playing the violin.{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlT9EvM1_4kC&dq=phyllis+duganne&pg=PT66 | title=To the Life of the Silver Harbor: Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy on Cape Cod | last1=Wilson | first1=Reuel K. | year=2009 }}

Arnold Genthe photographed her circa 1918.{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/2018711255/|title=Duganne, Phyllis, Miss, portrait photograph|website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}} She was a niece of Wallace Irwin and Inez Haynes Irwin,{{Cite magazine|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,727568,00.html|title=The Irwin Brothers|magazine=Time |date=October 8, 1923|via=content.time.com}}{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KHgSAAAAMAAJ&dq=phyllis+duganne&pg=PT46 | title=The Bookman: A Review of Books and Life | year=1921 }} who based one of her characters on her.{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n2wyAQAAMAAJ&dq=phyllis+duganne&pg=PA566 | title=The Publishers Weekly | year=1920 }}