Deloris Florine Stanton Forbes (July 10, 1923 – October 22, 2013) was an American writer. She wrote books and stories under several pseudonyms, including Stanton Forbes, Tobias Wells and DeLoris S. Forbes. She was born Deloris Florine Stanton.

Biography

Forbes was born in Kansas City, Missouri in July 1923. In the 1940s, Forbes worked as a reporter for a local newspaper after attending "what is now

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", then worked as a crime reporter in Baton Rouge, La. before moving to Boston where she married Bill Forbes, an advertising representative for the ''

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''. From 1958 to 1973, she was an assistant editor of

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before moving to St. Martin in 1973. She was the author of several

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, including ''A Deadly Kind of Lonely'' (1971), ''Buried in So Sweet a Place'' (1978), ''The Sad, Sudden Death of My Fair Lady'' (1971), and ''Go To Thy Deathbed'' (1969), which was made into the film ''

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''. According to the dust jacket of her novel ''When the Hearse Goes by'' (2002), "DeLoris Staton Forbes was the author of 41 published novels… She lived and worked, until her death, in

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, FL." Forbes died in October 2013 at the age of 90.Stop, You're Killing Me!: Stanton Forbes
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Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center
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