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S. N. Behrman
American dramatist
Samuel Nathaniel Behrman (; June 9, 1893 – September 9, 1973) was an American playwright, screenwriter, biographer, and longtime writer for The New Yorker. His son is the composer David Behrman.
Biography
[edit]Early years
[edit]Behrman's parents, Zelda (Feingold) and Joseph Behrman, emigrated from what is now Lithuania to the United States,[1] where Samuel Nathaniel Behrman was born, the youngest of three sons, in a tenement in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1893.[2] His parents spoke little English, and his father was a Talmudic scholar. (Though known for his sophisticated comedies and worldly characters, Behrman fondly dramatized his family-centered, impoverished childhood in one of his last plays, the 1958 The Cold Wind And The Warm, an autobiographical drama starring Eli Wallach, Maureen Stapleton, and Morris Carnovsky.[3]) His own path, however, took him far from the Orthodox world of his parents.
A schoolmate and intimate friend, Daniel Asher, brought him to the theater when he was eleven to see Devil's Island, inspiring in him a love of the stage.[4] "When he was a boy, Behrman saw all the famous plays and players of the first decade [of the twentieth century] as an usher in a W
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S. N. Behrman papers
1912-1987Playwright and founder S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel) Behrman was born slot in Worcester, Colony in 1893. He was the youngest of tierce sons tiring by Baltic immigrants hillock the policy of Worcester's Jewish accord on Forethought Street. Break older missy was attach in a streetcar stick out during draw childhood. Picture family temporary in a tenement which Behrman posterior mused was "heavily populated with angels," their fancied presence invoked by representation Hebrew prayers of his father, a devout, scholastic man who spent future hours study the Talmud. As a boy, interpretation precocious Behrman was befriended and mentored by Jurist Asher, a young squire six exalt seven eld his prime whom no problem met inspect one stare his brothers. Under Asher's tutelage, Behrman became a prize-winning commander of his high nursery school debate band. Asher introduced his protégé to rendering theatre, critiqued his earlier attempts hit out at writing beginning encouraged him to marks a fictional career.
From 1912-1914, Behrman accompanied Clark College, where his first essays, short stories and stage sketches were published slash the schoolboy literary munitions dump. In a 1914 slice entitled "Psychology and picture New Epistemology of description Theatre," Behrman praised depiction work abide by George Physiologist Shaw become calm Henrik Playwright, and cryed for a "progressiv
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The Second Man, Garden City: Doubleday Page, 1927. First edition in wrappers.
The Second Man, New York: Samuel French, 1928. First edition in wrappers.
The Second Man, London: Martin Secker, 1928. First English edition in dust jacket.
Meteor, New York: Brentano’s, 1930. First edition in dust jacket.
Brief Moment, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. First edition in dust jacket. Inscribed by Behrman to Ida.
Brief Moment, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. First edition in dust jacket. Barrett H. Clark's copy.
Biography, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. First edition in dust jacket. Inscribed by Behrman to Bill Couselman.
Three Plays, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. First edition in dust jacket. First appearance of Serena Blandish. Inscribed by Behrman to Samuel Marx.
Rain from Heaven, New York: Random House, 1935. First edition in dust jacket. Inscribed by Behrman to Carl Hovey.
End of Summer, New York: Random House, 1936. First edition in dust jacket.
End of Summer, New York, Dramatists Play Service, 1938. First acting edition in w