Her oldest and youngest brothers, Worth and Robert Bingham, died in freak accidents only two years apart in the mid-1960s, and she had two failed marriages as she struggled with a fiction and playwriting career before meeting her third husband.
Pinter told the BBC that it was "absolute nonsense," however, to assume his playwriting days were finished.
The couple became a successful playwriting and screenplay-writing team, winning a Tony Award in 1949 for "Kiss Me Kate."