Jerome Lawrence (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Jerome Lawrence Schwartz, with his partner, Robert E. Lee, was instrumental in the commercial, intellectual, and public development of American theater in the mid-twentieth century. His father, Samuel Schwartz, owned a printing company, and his mother, Sarah (Rogen) Schwartz, was a poet. Propelled by the family’s literary affiliations, Lawrence’s interest in drama bloomed in his high school and college days, when he acted in and directed school and summer theater productions. As a teenager, he studied writing with Eugene C. Davis and later, at Ohio State University, with Harlan...
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