Hawthorn Tree: Some Papers and Letters of Life and the Theater

by Paul Green

Owner's name inside book, some pencil notes in margins, price clipped DJ. Professional and amateur theater progress in art, education and life in the war-torn world of 1943.

157 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1943

About the author

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Paul Eliot Green was an American playwright best known for his historical dramas of life in North Carolina during the first decades of the twentieth century. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1927 play, In Abraham's Bosom, which was included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1926-1927.

Green was also a composer, and he collaborated with Kurt Weill. His best known songs include "Oh, Heart of Love", "On the Rio Grande", "Mon Ami, My Friend" and "Johnny's Song".