Rice, Elmer
Rice, Elmer ( 1892 – 1967 ),American dramatist, born Elmer Reizenstein in New York. His first major play was the expressionist drama The Adding Machine ( 1923 ), which satirized increasing regimentation and mechanization through the posthumous adventures of Mr Zero, a bookkeeper. His plays of the 1930s (We, the People, 1933 ; Judgment Day, 1934 ; Between Two Worlds, 1934 ) are a response to the Depression and international ideological conflict. Rice was a campaigner for social justice and an outspoken critic of censorship. He wrote many other plays, some of them farces and melodramas, four novels, and a memoir, Minority Report ( 1963 ).
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