George S. Kaufman (Critical Survey of Drama)

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George S. Kaufman began his literary career by voluntarily writing humorous verse and prose for Franklin P. Adams’s column in the New York Evening Mail. Later, he was hired to write his own column in the Washington Times. Kaufman then replaced Adams at the Evening Mail for a short time, was fired, and took a job as a reporter on the New York Tribune. Shortly thereafter, he was made drama editor, only to leave the Tribune in 1917 for the same position at The New York Times. He held on to his relationship with...

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