The Heiress (1947 play) was based on a novel written by a British writer who was born in the United States.
The Heiress is a 1947 play by American playwrights Ruth and Augustus Goetz adapted from the 1880 Henry James novel Washington Square .	Augustus Goetz	Augustus Goetz	Ruth	Ruth Goetz	Henry James	Henry James	Washington Square	Washington Square (novel)
Henry James , OM was an American-born British writer .	OM	Order of Merit
