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Samuel Nathaniel Behrman ( / ˈbɛərmən /; 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. Early years.
5 Jun 2024 · S.N. Behrman was an American short-story writer and playwright best known for popular Broadway plays that commented on contemporary moral issues. Behrman wrote about the wealthy, intellectual sector of society, endowing his characters with eloquence and intelligence.
The playwright, screenwriter, essayist, raconteur and consummate wit Samuel Nathaniel Behrman became known as Broadway's pre-eminent author of sophisticated high comedy. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of a devout Jewish grocer, he grew up in fairly impoverished circumstances.
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.
SNBehrman.com is an online archive devoted to the American playwright, S. N. Behrman.
Probably more than any other dramatist in American theatrical history, S. N. Behrman's dramas exemplify the mastery of high or sophisticated comedy.
The S. N. Behrman Papers are an important resource for the study of the American theatre, the Hollywood film industry, popular magazine literature and New York intellectual culture.
