Marc Connelly

Marc Connelly, actually Marcus Cook ( born December 13, 1890 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, † December 21, 1980 in New York City, New York ) was an American journalist, playwright and writer.

Life

Marc Connelly was a journalist for the Pittsburgh Sun in Pittsburgh until he went to New York City. Within a short time he became acquainted with the most famous artists of the city, including Dorothy Parker, Robert E. Sherwood, Heywood Broun, Robert Benchley, Alice Duer Miller, Harpo Marx, Jascha Heifetz, Jane Grant, Ruth Hale, George S. Kaufman, Harold Ross, Neysa McMein, Alexander Woollcott, Franklin Pierce Adams, Edna Ferber, Irving Berlin and Bernard Baruch. Connelly was one of the founding members of the later famous literary circle in the Algonquin Hotel, called the Algonquin Round Table, a loose group of journalists, writers and actors, to.

Together with playwright George Simon Kaufman he wrote several Broadway plays, including Dulcy ( 1921), Little Old Millersville (1922 ), Merton of the Movies (1922 ) and Beggar on Horseback (1925 ). In 1930, Connelly won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel The Green Pastures, a landmark of American literature and the first African-American Broadway show in New York.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Autobiography

  • Marc Connelly: Voices Offstage: A Book of Memoirs, Holt, Rinehart & Winston ( 1968) ISBN 0-0306-8475-7
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