Author. She gained recognition as a 20th century American author, who had her childhood, as well as her younger brother, in the Algonquin Hotel on West Forty-fourth Street in Manhattan. Besides having a long career as a magazine writer, she was the author of three books, all tied to her relationship with her father, Frank Case, who was the hotel's general manager and 25 years later, the proprietor. Although Case claimed that she was born in the Algonquin Hotel in room 1206, this was not true, as the hotel opened after her birth. Born Margaret Davis Case, her mother was Caroline Eckert Case, who like her father, was a native of Buffalo. Her mother died in 1908 with the birth of her brother. Her parents lived and worked at Taylor's Hotel in Jersey City, New Jersey, for around three years before the Algonquin's opening. At the hotel, she rubbed shoulders with all of the famous guests, including Broadway actors and silent screen stars. As a child, she was close to John Drew, uncle of the Barrymore siblings, and Douglas Fairbanks. In 1919 she accompanied her father and step-mother, Bertha Case, to Europe. She was a graduate of the Gardner School for Girls in Manhattan and a finishing school in Paris. She knew the members of the Algonquin Round Table, who began the meetings at lunchtime in the hotel when she was 18 years old. She was friendly with many of them since she was a child. In 1925 "The New Yorker" was launched by Harold Ross and Jane Grant. Case wrote for "The New Yorker", "Vanity Fair", and the "New York Times" magazine, mostly profiles of celebrities. It was the eyewitness account of seeing the literary group that led to her bestselling book "The Vicious Circle" in 1951. This was followed by "Blessed Are The Debonair" in 1956, which included family stories, and an amusing book about Macy's department store, "And the Price is Right." Her collection of magazine pieces, most from "The New Yorker," "Take Them Up Tenderly" was published in 1941 and is still in print in the 21st century. Case was married and divorced three times. In 1925 she wed stockbroker Morgan Guion Morgan at the home of actress Elsie Janis in Tarrytown, New York. Guests included actor John Drew and her boss, publisher Conde Nast. The couple had one son in 1927, Guion Case Morgan, who became a teacher. After a divorce in 1929 she married financier John Harriman, a nephew of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, in 1932. Following this union, she wed Adolphus Hill Eller in 1951; he was a summer stock actor 13 years her junior. The marriage ended quickly.