Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier

Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier (March 25, 1896 – January 3, 1984), known earlier in her career as Elizabeth Pickett, was an American author best known for her 1942 novel, the bestseller Drivin' Woman, which was promoted as a novel in the vein of Gone with the Wind. In her earlier career, she was also a silent short-film director and a screenwriter who wrote scenarios and titles for Fox Film Corporation.

Chevalier was born in Chicago in 1896, and was a granddaughter of Confederate States Army General George Pickett. Pickett took over her family's tobacco farm in Lexington, Kentucky before graduating from Wellesley Women's College in 1918. At the end of the first World War, she went to work in Washington D.C. with the American Red Cross as a historian and publicist until eventually making propaganda shorts for the non-profit organization. Pickett also managed to contribute about eleven hundred pages to the 1923 History of the American Red Cross. In her early work she made a one reel picture called In Florence Nightingale's Footsteps, which was designed to try and persuade women to become war nurses. It was this event that swayed Pickett to pursue more work in film and so she began working for the Fox Film Corporation shortly afterwards.

In her earlier career, Elizabeth Pickett was a silent short-film director and a screenwriter who wrote scenarios and titles for Fox Film Corporation. In 1923 she produced the very first "short series" films for Fox Film Corporation. Pickett helped to write and direct nearly forty "short series" films for Fox until eventually becoming the West Coast supervisor. Over the course of her career she edited and titled more than fifty Fox varieties. Pickett wrote several original stories such as Navajo and Wolf Fangs and adapted and titled works including Wings of the Storm, and The Monkey Talks. Other contributions she made in the film industry include titling and editing Kentucky Pride, Exploring the Amazon, Whispering Sage, The Shamrock Handicap, and Marriage License.

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