Plays evaluated in American Playwrights are by dramatists Sidney Howard, S.N. Behrman, Maxwell Anderson, Eugene O’Neill, by comedy writer George S. Kaufman (variously collaborating with Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, Herman Mankiewicz, Morrie Ryskind, Howard Dietz, Katherine Dayton, and others), and by comedy writers George Kelly, Rachel Crothers, Philip Barry, and Robert E. Sherwood.
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When she showed the completed book to the historian Arthur Schlesinger, he recognized its value and urged her to offer it to Harvard University Press, which readily accepted it for publication.
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Eleanor’s father, Abraham Flexner (1866-1959), was a leader in several fields including, with his brother Simon Flexner at the Rockefeller Institute, the reform of early 20th-century medical education and medical research in the United States and Canada.
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In the penultimate chapter, “The New Realism,” brief attention is given to Susan Glaspell, Arthur Richman, Elmer Rice, Sophie Treadwell, John Howard Lawson, Paul Green, Paul & Claire Sifton, George Sklar & Albert Maltz, Paul Peters & George Sklar, John Wexley, Clifford Odets, Albert Bein, Irwin Shaw, Emanuel Eisenberg, Sidney Kingsley, Marc Blitzstein, and Ben Bengal.
Eleanor Roosevelt | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Eleanor of Aquitaine | Eleanor Bron | Eleanor Powell | Eleanor of Castile | Eleanor Rosch | Eleanor | Eleanor Rigby | Eleanor Thornton | Eleanor Steber | Eleanor of Lancaster | Eleanor Callow | Eleanor de Montfort | Abraham Flexner | Simon Flexner | Eleanor Robson | Eleanor of Provence | Eleanor of Leicester | Eleanor of England | Eleanor Marx | Eleanor King | Eleanor H. Porter | Eleanor Friedberger | Eleanor Dawson | Eleanor Bergstein | Eleanor Arnason | Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years | Eleanor Worthington Cox | Eleanor Searle |