Librarian Note: This edition's ISBN is in conflict with another's in the database, ISBN10: 2844852025 ISBN13: 9782844852021 - L'apocalypse de notre temps.
Samson Raphaelson (March 30, 1894 – July 16, 1983) was an American playwright, screenwriter and fiction writer.
While working as an advertising executive in New York, he wrote a short story based on the early life of Al Jolson, called The Day of Atonement, which he then converted into a 1925 play, The Jazz Singer. In 1927 this would become the first talking picture, with Jolson its star.