Elizabeth Beecher graduated from Syracuse University. She worked as a news reporter and writer for the Syracuse Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York American. In covering stories during Prohibition she was twice shot at by rum runners, threatened by Mafia hoodlums, and saved a 13-year-old boy from the electric chair (later winning the Pall Mall radio and television "Big Story" award for this story). She moved to Hollywood in 1937 where she worked as a freelance writer. She was one of only a few women who wrote screenplays for western film producers and television shows such as The Cisco Kid, and The Gene Autry Show. In addition, she edited, rewrote, or ghosted more than 100 manuscripts dealing with every conceivable subject working in many mediums—novels, teleplays, screenplays, articles and short stories.