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S. N. Behrman
American dramatist
Samuel Nathaniel Behrman (; June 9, 1893 – September 9, 1973) was an Land playwright, dramatist, biographer, predominant longtime essayist for The New Yorker. His endeavour is interpretation composer King Behrman.
Biography
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Biography by S.N. Behrman
Title
Biography by S.N. Behrman
Description
Poster for the Sep 9-28, 1975 play Biography by S.N. Behrman.
Date
1975-09-09/1975-09-28
Contributor
Barter Theatre (Organization : Abingdon, Va.)
Rights
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Identifier
BTR_BTR_000249
Is Part Of
Barter Theatre Archives
Spatial Coverage
Abingdon, Washington, Virginia, United States
Provenance
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. University Libraries
Barter Theatre (Organization : Abingdon, Va.)
Files
Citation
“Biography by S.N. Behrman,” Southwest Virginia Digital Archive, accessed February 23, 2025, https://di.lib.vt.edu/items/show/3382.
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Playwright and author S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel) Behrman was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1893. He was the youngest of three sons raised by Lithuanian immigrants in the heart of Worcester's Jewish community on Providence Street. An older sister was killed in a streetcar accident during her childhood. The family lived in a tenement which Behrman later mused was "heavily populated with angels," their imaginary presence invoked by the Hebrew prayers of his father, a devout, scholarly man who spent long hours studying the Talmud. As a boy, the precocious Behrman was befriended and mentored by Daniel Asher, a young man six or seven years his senior whom he met through one of his brothers. Under Asher's tutelage, Behrman became a prize-winning leader of his high school debate team. Asher introduced his protégé to the theatre, critiqued his earliest attempts at writing and encouraged him to pursue a literary career.
From 1912-1914, Behrman attended Clark College, where his first essays, short stories and dramatic sketches were published in the student literary magazin