Martin Flavin

Martin Archer Flavin ( born November 2, 1883 in San Francisco, California, † December 27, 1967 in Carmel -by-the -Sea, California ) was an American playwright and writer, in 1944 for his novel Journey in the Dark the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel received.

Biography

Flavin began his literary career as a playwright and published in 1923 with Children of the Moon, his first play, with the Emergency Case and Caleb Stone's Death Watch was followed by two dramas in the same year. Later more dramas were Achilles Had a Heel ( 1924), Lady of the Rose ( 1925), Service for Two ( 1926) and The Criminal Code, Broken Dishes and Crossroads, which appeared all three in 1929.

In 1930, he was with Spindrift his debut novel, and then wrote a few more novels like Sunday (1933 ), Blue Jeans ( 1937) and Mr. Littlejohn ( 1940). In between, he wrote the two stage works Tapestry in Gray ( 1935) and Around the Corner (1936).

1944 appeared the novel Journey in the Dark, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize.

In addition, Flavin was the early 1930s, also an author of screenplays of movies. Among the best known films include " The Criminal Code" ( The Penal Code ) on his same drama, directed by Howard Hawks (1930 ) with Walter Huston and Phillips Holmes in the lead roles, "Passion Flower" (1930 ) by William C. de Mille with Kay Francis and Charles Bickford, "The Big House" ( hell behind bars ) by George W. Hill with Chester Morris and Wallace Beery, " transgression" by Herbert Brenon (1931 ) with Kay Francis and Ricardo Cortez and "Laughing Sinners " by Harry Beaumont (1931 ) with Joan Crawford and Neil Hamilton.

Flavin, who was a member between 1947 and his death, the renowned Dutch Treat Club in New York City, recently wrote the 1962 novel Red Poppies and White Marble.