Elaine St. Johns; Author, Daughter of Adela Rogers St. Johns

Elaine St. Johns, 78, author who edited and collaborated with her mother, Adela Rogers St. Johns. The two women worked together for 15 years and produced five best-selling books. Elaine St. Johns, who married five times, worked at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft during World War II assembling engines. She began her writing career as a reporter for the now-defunct Los Angeles Daily Mirror. With the short story “My Friend God,” she became a contributor to Guideposts magazine, and wrote regularly for Science of Mind magazine. As a ghostwriter, she fashioned books by such noted figures as the hotelier Conrad Hilton. She also co-wrote the often-reprinted “Prayer Can Change Your Life” with William Parker of Redlands University. On May 11 in Los Angeles.