Donald Margulies (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Donald Margulies (MAHR-gyuh-lees) was born in Brooklyn to a middle-class Jewish family on September 2, 1954. Despite a forty-year career as a wallpaper salesman, Margulies’s father, Bob, always feared that he would lose his job. Constantly working, Bob Margulies never developed a close relationship with his two sons. However, he tried to provide them every opportunity. The Margulies house was filled with show tunes, and the family attended as many Broadway plays as they could afford. His father’s love for theater helped to mold Margulies’s writing.
Margulies’s mother also...
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