A Thousand Clowns | Author Biography
Herbert Gardner was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 28, 1934. His grandfather owned a neighborhood bar, the Silver Gate, in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Gardner attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York City and then the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh and Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he studied sculpture and drama. Gardner’s Jewish heritage and his experiences listening to conversations in his father’s bar provided background for several of his plays and characters.
A man of many interests and abilities, Gardner wanted...
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