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N. Behrman</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Behrman-1938.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Behrman-1938.jpg/180px-Behrman-1938.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Behrman-1938.jpg/270px-Behrman-1938.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Behrman-1938.jpg/360px-Behrman-1938.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1350" data-file-height="1650" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">S. N. Behrman in 1938</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Samuel Nathaniel Behrman</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1893-06-09</span>)</span>June 9, 1893<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Worcester,_Massachusetts" title="Worcester, Massachusetts">Worcester, Massachusetts</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">September 9, 1973<span style="display:none">(1973-09-09)</span> (aged 80)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">New York City, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>, <a href="/wiki/B.A." class="mw-redirect" title="B.A.">B.A.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <ul><li>Playwright</li> <li>screenwriter</li> <li>writer</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1915–1972</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_Behrman" title="David Behrman">David Behrman</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Samuel Nathaniel Behrman</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="/ɛər/: 'are' in 'bare'">ɛər</span><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span>/</a></span></span>; June 9, 1893 – September 9, 1973) was an American playwright, screenwriter, biographer, and longtime writer for <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>. His son is the composer <a href="/wiki/David_Behrman" title="David Behrman">David Behrman</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._N._Behrman&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_years">Early years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._N._Behrman&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Behrman's parents, Zelda (Feingold) and Joseph Behrman, emigrated from what is now Lithuania to the United States,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where Samuel Nathaniel Behrman was born, the youngest of three sons, in a tenement in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1893.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His parents spoke little English, and his father was a <a href="/wiki/Talmud" title="Talmud">Talmudic</a> scholar. (Though known for his sophisticated comedies and worldly characters, Behrman fondly dramatized his family-centered, impoverished childhood in one of his last plays, the 1958 <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cold_Wind_And_The_Warm" title="The Cold Wind And The Warm">The Cold Wind And The Warm</a></i>, an autobiographical drama starring <a href="/wiki/Eli_Wallach" title="Eli Wallach">Eli Wallach</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maureen_Stapleton" title="Maureen Stapleton">Maureen Stapleton</a>, and Morris Carnovsky.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) His own path, however, took him far from the Orthodox world of his parents. </p><p>A schoolmate and intimate friend, Daniel Asher, brought him to the theater when he was eleven to see <i>Devil's Island</i>, inspiring in him a love of the stage.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "When he was a boy, Behrman saw all the famous plays and players of the first decade [of the twentieth century] as an usher in a Worcester theater."<sup id="cite_ref-Atkinson,_p._271_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Atkinson,_p._271-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At fifteen, he ran away from home with another schoolmate for four days and stayed in New York City. Life in Worcester began to appear increasingly limited. At seventeen, he saw a production of George Bernard Shaw's <i>Caesar and Cleopatra</i> at Boston's Park Street Theatre that determined him on his course; that play "seduced me to the theatre," he later remarked.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After graduating from high school, Behrman attempted a career as an actor on the vaudeville circuit. Bad health forced him to quit, and he returned home to Worcester and attended Clark University. There he studied under the noted psychologist G. Stanley Hall and heard Sigmund Freud lecture on his 1909 American tour. He immersed himself in the plays of Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Arthur Pinero, and Maurice Maeterlinck.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="College">College</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._N._Behrman&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: College"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>College was a mixed experience for Behrman. He was repeatedly suspended for failing mandatory physical education classes. Daniel Asher, who devotedly believed in his friend's future, urged Behrman to take courses at nearby Harvard University. There he enrolled in an English composition class with the renowned writing instructor, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Townsend_Copeland" title="Charles Townsend Copeland">Charles Townsend Copeland</a>. He was suspended at Clark again in his sophomore year, at which time he transferred to Harvard. (in 1949, Clark University awarded Behrman an honorary degree.) While in Copeland's class in 1915, he sold a short story to the magazine <i>The Parisienne</i>. He then submitted one of his dramatic manuscripts to <a href="/wiki/George_Pierce_Baker" title="George Pierce Baker">George Pierce Baker</a>, whose playwriting workshop was one of the university's most respected courses. (Other famous alumni of the class include Eugene O'Neill, Thomas Wolfe, Sidney Howard, and Philip Barry.) Baker was impressed with Behrman's student work. In the <i>New York Tribune</i> nineteen years later, he would title an essay "Baker's Last Drama Lecture: From <a href="/wiki/Aeschylus" title="Aeschylus">Aeschylus</a> to Behrman," in tribute to his famous student. In 1916, Behrman was the only undergraduate in the legendary "47 Workshop" playwriting class, where he studied <a href="/wiki/George_Meredith" title="George Meredith">George Meredith</a>'s comedy. He earned his B.A. at Harvard and went on to graduate studies at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>. </p><p>While at Columbia, where he received his M.A. in 1918, Behrman studied under the noted theater critic and historian <a href="/wiki/Brander_Matthews" title="Brander Matthews">Brander Matthews</a>. He was supported for a time by his brothers Hiram and Morris, who ran a successful accounting firm and who were willing to help their younger brother complete his education and try to establish himself as a writer. Living in a cold-water flat in Manhattan, Behrman worked in his twenties as a book reviewer, newspaper interviewer, and press agent, collaborated on three undistinguished plays, and published short stories in several magazines, including <i>The Smart Set,</i> the monthly edited by H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. His first play under his own name, <i>The Second Man,</i> was a dramatization of a story he had written for <i>The Smart Set</i> in 1919 and, when produced by the Theater Guild in 1927, made his reputation.<sup id="cite_ref-Atkinson,_p._271_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Atkinson,_p._271-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Noël Coward, who became a friend, acted in the London production.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Writing_career">Writing career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._N._Behrman&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Writing career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From the late 1920s through the 1940s, S. N. Behrman was considered one of Broadway's leading authors of "high comedy," was often produced by the famous <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Guild" title="Theatre Guild">Theatre Guild</a>, and wrote for such stars as <a href="/wiki/Ina_Claire" title="Ina Claire">Ina Claire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Katharine_Cornell" title="Katharine Cornell">Katharine Cornell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jane_Cowl" title="Jane Cowl">Jane Cowl</a>, and the acting team of <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Lunt" title="Alfred Lunt">Alfred Lunt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lynn_Fontanne" title="Lynn Fontanne">Lynn Fontanne</a>, who became his good friends. One journalist remembered him from this period as "slim, dark-eyed, curly-haired...with the brooding melancholy of a young Jewish intellectual."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Theater critic and historian Brooks Atkinson described Behrman as "one of the Guild's most adored authors."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Along with <a href="/wiki/Elmer_Rice" title="Elmer Rice">Elmer Rice</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maxwell_Anderson" title="Maxwell Anderson">Maxwell Anderson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Sherwood" title="Robert E. Sherwood">Robert E. Sherwood</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Howard" title="Sidney Howard">Sidney Howard</a>, he was later one of the five founding members of the Playwright's Company. Among his greatest Broadway successes were <i>Biography</i> (1932), <i>End of Summer</i> (1936), and <i>No Time for Comedy</i> (1939). His stage adaptation of <a href="/wiki/Enid_Bagnold" title="Enid Bagnold">Enid Bagnold</a>'s novel <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serena_Blandish&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Serena Blandish (page does not exist)">Serena Blandish</a></i> became a success for actress <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Gordon" title="Ruth Gordon">Ruth Gordon</a>. A well-read man of wide culture, he also adapted plays by <a href="/wiki/Jean_Giraudoux" title="Jean Giraudoux">Jean Giraudoux</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marcel_Achard" title="Marcel Achard">Marcel Achard</a> and "<a href="/wiki/Jane_(play)" title="Jane (play)">Jane</a>," a short story by his good friend <a href="/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham" title="W. Somerset Maugham">W. Somerset Maugham</a>. With composer <a href="/wiki/Harold_Rome" title="Harold Rome">Harold Rome</a>, he adapted <a href="/wiki/Marcel_Pagnol" title="Marcel Pagnol">Marcel Pagnol</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Fanny_(musical)" title="Fanny (musical)">Fanny</a></i> trilogy into a musical play for the stage. His 1942 Broadway play, <i>The Pirate</i>, was turned into a musical for the film version in 1948, also called <i><a href="/wiki/The_Pirate_(1948_film)" title="The Pirate (1948 film)">The Pirate</a></i>. </p><p>In Hollywood, Behrman enjoyed a lucrative second career as a screenwriter. He wrote screenplays for <a href="/wiki/Greta_Garbo" title="Greta Garbo">Greta Garbo</a>, including <i><a href="/wiki/Queen_Christina_(film)" title="Queen Christina (film)">Queen Christina</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Conquest_(1937_film)" title="Conquest (1937 film)">Conquest</a></i>, and her final film, <i><a href="/wiki/Two-Faced_Woman" title="Two-Faced Woman">Two-Faced Woman</a></i>. With Sonya Levien, he co-wrote the <a href="/wiki/Screen_play" class="mw-redirect" title="Screen play">screen play</a> for the 1930 film version of <a href="/wiki/Ferenc_Moln%C3%A1r" title="Ferenc Molnár">Ferenc Molnár</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Liliom" title="Liliom">Liliom</a></i>, starring <a href="/wiki/Charles_Farrell" title="Charles Farrell">Charles Farrell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rose_Hobart" title="Rose Hobart">Rose Hobart</a>. His experiences in Hollywood found dramatic form in the play <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Let_Me_Hear_the_Melody&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Let Me Hear the Melody (page does not exist)">Let Me Hear the Melody</a></i> (1951), a failure that closed in pre-Broadway tryouts. He also collaborated on the screenplays for <i>Anna Karenina</i> (1935), <i>A Tale of Two Cities</i> (1935), and <i>Waterloo Bridge</i> (1940). </p><p>Berhman's comedies repeatedly celebrate tolerance, yet show how tolerant people in their generosity are often vulnerable when confronted by fanatics or ruthless opportunists. In <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=End_of_Summer_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="End of Summer (play) (page does not exist)">End of Summer</a></i>, a liberal household is threatened by a devious psychoanalyst who is able to play upon the family's weaknesses in his desire for wealth and power. Behrman's protagonists often feel inadequate to deal with the evils and injustices in the world. The hero of <i><a href="/wiki/No_Time_for_Comedy" title="No Time for Comedy">No Time for Comedy</a></i>, a successful author of stylish comedies for his actress-wife, feels the need to write a serious play in response to the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a>. When he fails at this attempt, he resolves to go to Spain himself and fight. The play asks the question: Is there a place for comedy in a violent and unjust world? The protagonist of <i>Biography</i> laments a political landscape that is divided between left- and right-wing extremes, leaving little space for a tolerant, humane middle ground. </p><p>Behrman's columns for <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i> included profiles of such notable figures as composer <a href="/wiki/George_Gershwin" title="George Gershwin">George Gershwin</a>, Hungarian playwright <a href="/wiki/Ferenc_Moln%C3%A1r" title="Ferenc Molnár">Ferenc Molnár</a>, Zionist leader <a href="/wiki/Chaim_Weizmann" title="Chaim Weizmann">Chaim Weizmann</a> and entertainer <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" title="Eddie Cantor">Eddie Cantor</a> as well as longer pieces that became highly regarded biographies of writer and dandy <a href="/wiki/Max_Beerbohm" title="Max Beerbohm">Max Beerbohm</a> and art dealer <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Duveen" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Duveen">Joseph Duveen</a>. His autobiographical essays, also serialized in <i>The New Yorker,</i> appeared in two volumes, <i>The Worcester Account</i> (1955) and <i>People in a Diary</i> (1972). He was elected a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> in 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-AAAS_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AAAS-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Behrman was known for his warm, witty personality and enjoyed good relations with many other writers, both in and out of the theater world. A newspaper interview he conducted with <a href="/wiki/Siegfried_Sassoon" title="Siegfried Sassoon">Siegfried Sassoon</a>, when the British poet was visiting New York after World War I, led to a lifelong friendship and many visits to Sassoon's country house when Behrman was in England.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While not gay himself, Behrman was especially supportive of the tribulations of Sassoon's always turbulent love life.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Work on dramatizing a short story by Somerset Maugham led to a relaxed, bantering relationship with that British writer as well and many visits to Maugham's home on the Riviera.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Publisher Bennett Cerf repeatedly urged Behrman to write a biography of Maugham, feeling that he knew him as well as anyone. It was a project Behrman toyed with throughout the 1960s, but ultimately declined on the advice of <i>New Yorker</i> editor William Shawn.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When in Italy, he was a welcome guest of Max Beerbohm, whose biography he wrote in 1960, four years after Beerbohm's death. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Major_works">Major works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._N._Behrman&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Major works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Behrman's two most anthologized plays, which continued to be revived in regional theaters through the twentieth century, are <i>Biography</i> (1932) and <i>End of Summer</i> (1936). Like many of Behrman's plays, they are character studies more than plot-filled dramas. </p><p><i>Biography</i> tells the story of Marion Froude, a noted portrait painter, who has been prevailed upon by an abrasive leftwing publisher, Richard Kurt, to write her serialized memoirs for his magazine. A former lover with senatorial aspirations, Leander Nolan, hopes to marry into a conservative, politically well-placed southern family. He wants Marion to abandon the project, fearing that he will be named in her book and his plans derailed. A liberal woman who has painted both Roman Catholic prelates and Lenin himself, Marion must choose (she destroys her manuscript in the end), but is ultimately alienated by both Kurt's proletarian rigidity and Leander's smug conservatism. <i>Biography</i> starred Ina Claire and ran on Broadway for 219 performances.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>End of Summer</i> is about three women of different generations and values: forty-ish Leonie Frothingham, her elderly mother, and her nineteen-year-old daughter, Paula. The three women, insulated from the Depression and its harsh realities by their money, live in summer comfort on an estate in Maine. A visiting psychiatrist disrupts their complacency. He is attracted to both the divorced Leonie and her daughter but schemes to marry Leonie to gain control of her money, until his plan is revealed by Paula. Other characters, including a young man romantically attached to Paula and a Russian emigre-friend of the family, visit the house and talk about their lives, aspirations, and political leanings. Will, Paula's potential fiancé, cannot reconcile his activist politics with the thought of marrying into a family with so much money. One writer described <i>End of Summer</i> as "a Chekhovian play which emphasizes the disappearance or demise of an old, conservative order [represented by Leonie's mother] and the emergence of the new, more radical way of American life." The play also starred Ina Claire and ran on Broadway for 153 performances.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>People in a Diary</i> (1972), a memoir, could also be regarded as a major Behrman work and a well-crafted example of its genre. Published eighteen years after his first memoir, <i>The Worcester Account,</i> it is a collection of autobiographical essays and sketches culled from the sixty volumes of diaries Behrman had been keeping since his time at Harvard in 1915. "An odd quirk of destiny has put a great many people in my way," he wrote in a significant understatement, declaring that his purpose in the book was to "revive their society" and the vibrant times they had shared. The cast of characters in <i>People in a Diary</i> gives an idea of the breadth and depth of Behrman's life: e.g., Greta Garbo, Laurence Olivier, Louis B. Mayer, Jean Giradoux, Somerset Maugham, Eugene O'Neill, Noël Coward, Maxwell Anderson, Elmer Rice, Sidney Howard, Felix Frankfurter, Bernard Berenson, the Gershwins, and the Marx Brothers. The book also contains some biting observations about the direction modern America had taken in the 1960s as it waged war in Vietnam and became more obsessed with money and imperial ambitions.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._N._Behrman&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>S. N. Behrman died in 1973 at the age of eighty. He was survived by his wife, Elza Heifetz Behrman, the sister of violinist <a href="/wiki/Jascha_Heifetz" title="Jascha Heifetz">Jascha Heifetz</a>, whom he had married in his forties, and a son. His stepdaughter was <a href="/wiki/Barbara_Gelb" title="Barbara Gelb">Barbara Gelb</a>, the biographer, along with her husband, <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Gelb" title="Arthur Gelb">Arthur Gelb</a>, of <a href="/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill" title="Eugene O'Neill">Eugene O'Neill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Brooks_Atkinson" title="Brooks Atkinson">Brooks Atkinson</a> wrote of Behrman, "[His] ethical and political principles have never been appreciated. It is an ancient rule that prizes are not given to comic plays about serious subjects. The court jester invariably ranks with dilettantes and flaneurs." In Atkinson's view, this "short, rounded, merry, owlish-looking...marvelously erudite and civilized" man was far more than merely a writer of Broadway entertainments.<sup id="cite_ref-Atkinson,_p._271_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Atkinson,_p._271-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His widow died in 1998 aged 92. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._N._Behrman&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Plays">Plays</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._N._Behrman&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Plays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Bedside Manners</i> (1923), with J. Kenyon Nicholson</li> <li><i>A Night's Work</i> (1924), with Nicholson</li> <li><i>The Man Who Forgot</i> (1926), with <a href="/wiki/Owen_Davis" title="Owen Davis">Owen Davis</a></li> <li><i>The Second Man</i> (1927)</li> <li><i>Love Is Like That</i> (1927), with Nicholson</li> <li><i>Serena Blandish</i> (or <i>The Difficulty of Getting Married</i>)(1929)</li> <li><i>Meteor</i> (1929)</li> <li><i>Brief Moment</i> (1931)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Biography_(play)" title="Biography (play)">Biography</a></i> (1932)</li> <li><i>Love Story</i> (1933)</li> <li><i>Rain From Heaven</i> (1934)</li> <li><i>End of Summer</i> (1936)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amphitryon_38" title="Amphitryon 38">Amphitryon 38</a></i> (1937)</li> <li><i>Wine of Choice</i> (1938)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/No_Time_for_Comedy#Stage_play" title="No Time for Comedy">No Time for Comedy</a></i> (1939)</li> <li><i>The Talley Method</i> (1941)</li> <li><i>The Pirate</i> (1942)</li> <li><i>Jacobowsky and the Colonel</i> (1944)</li> <li><i>Dunnigan's Daughter</i> (1945)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jane_(play)" title="Jane (play)">Jane</a></i> (1946)</li> <li><i>I Know My Love</i> (1949)</li> <li><i>Let Me Hear the Melody</i> (1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fanny_(musical)" title="Fanny (musical)"><i>Fanny</i> (musical)</a> (1954), with <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Logan" title="Joshua Logan">Joshua Logan</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cold_Wind_And_The_Warm" title="The Cold Wind And The Warm">The Cold Wind And The Warm</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i>Lord Pengo</i> (1962)</li> <li><i>But For Whom Charlie</i> (1964)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._N._Behrman&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time. </i> (1952)</li> <li><i>The Worcester Account</i> (1955)</li> <li><i>Portrait of Max: An Intimate Memoir of Sir Max Beerbohm</i> (1960)</li> <li><i>People in a Diary: A Memoir</i> (1972)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Screenplays">Screenplays</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._N._Behrman&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Screenplays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>He Knew Women</i> (1930)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Liliom" title="Liliom">Liliom</a></i> (1930), with Sonya Levien</li> <li><i>Lightning</i> (1930), with Levien</li> <li><i>The Sea-Wolf</i> (1930)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Brat" title="The Brat">The Brat</a></i> (1931), with Levien</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Surrender_(1931_film)" title="Surrender (1931 film)">Surrender</a></i> (1931), with Levien</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Daddy_Long_Legs_(1931_film)" title="Daddy Long Legs (1931 film)">Daddy Long Legs</a></i> (1931), with Levien</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rebecca_of_Sunnybrook_Farm_(1932_film)" title="Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932 film)">Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm</a></i> (1932), with Levien</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tess_of_the_Storm_Country_(1932_film)" title="Tess of the Storm Country (1932 film)">Tess of the Storm Country</a></i> (1932), with Levien</li> <li><i>Brief Moment</i> (1933)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hallelujah,_I%27m_a_Bum_(film)" title="Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (film)">Hallelujah, I'm a Bum</a></i> (1933)</li> <li><i>As Husbands Go</i> (1933)</li> <li><i>My Lips Betray</i> (1933)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Queen_Christina_(film)" title="Queen Christina (film)">Queen Christina</a></i> (1933)</li> <li><i>Biography of a Bachelor Girl</i> (1934)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Anna_Karenina_(1935_film)" title="Anna Karenina (1935 film)">Anna Karenina</a></i> (1935)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities_(1935_film)" title="A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film)">A Tale of Two Cities</a></i> (1935)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Conquest_(1937_film)" title="Conquest (1937 film)">Conquest</a></i> (1937)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Parnell_(film)" title="Parnell (film)">Parnell</a></i> (1937)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cowboy_and_the_Lady_(1938_film)" title="The Cowboy and the Lady (1938 film)">The Cowboy and the Lady</a></i> (1938)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/No_Time_for_Comedy" title="No Time for Comedy">No Time for Comedy</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Waterloo_Bridge_(1940_film)" title="Waterloo Bridge (1940 film)">Waterloo Bridge</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Two-Faced_Woman" title="Two-Faced Woman">Two-Faced Woman</a> (1941)</i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Pirate_(1948_film)" title="The Pirate (1948 film)">The Pirate</a></i> (1948)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Quo_Vadis_(1951_film)" title="Quo Vadis (1951 film)">Quo Vadis</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Me_and_the_Colonel" title="Me and the Colonel">Me and the Colonel</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fanny_(1961_film)" title="Fanny (1961 film)">Fanny</a></i> (1961)</li> <li><i>Stowaway in the Sky</i> (1962)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._N._Behrman&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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.citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFReedReed1975" class="citation book cs1">Reed, Kenneth T.; Reed, Terry (1975). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=oo9JAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Joseph+and+Zelda+Feingold+Behrman%22"><i>S. N. Behrman</i></a>. Twayne Publishers. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780805771541" title="Special:BookSources/9780805771541"><bdi>9780805771541</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=S.+N.+Behrman&rft.pub=Twayne+Publishers&rft.date=1975&rft.isbn=9780805771541&rft.aulast=Reed&rft.aufirst=Kenneth+T.&rft.au=Reed%2C+Terry&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Doo9JAAAAMAAJ%26q%3D%2522Joseph%2Band%2BZelda%2BFeingold%2BBehrman%2522&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AS.+N.+Behrman" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Biographical information for this entry is taken from Atkinson and Reed.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Atkinson, p. 428.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Asher, who committed suicide in 1929, and his intense relationship with Behrman is the subject of an unconventional memoir, <i>The Eminent Yachtsman & the Whorehouse Piano Player</i> (New York: Coward, McCann, 1973), by Don Asher, Daniel's son.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Atkinson,_p._271-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Atkinson,_p._271_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Atkinson,_p._271_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Atkinson,_p._271_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Atkinson, p. 271.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Reed, p. 22.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Reed, pp. 22, 24.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Barry Day (ed.)., <i>The Letters of Noel Coward</i> (New York: Vintage, 2009), p. 131. Coward was a great fan of Behrman's plays and directed <i>Biography</i> in London a few years after appearing in <i>The Second Man</i> (p. 287).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Reed, p. 27.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Atkinson, p. 217.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-AAAS-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-AAAS_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf">"Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. American Academy of Arts and Sciences<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 30,</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Book+of+Members%2C+1780-2010%3A+Chapter+B&rft.pub=American+Academy+of+Arts+and+Sciences&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amacad.org%2Fpublications%2FBookofMembers%2FChapterB.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AS.+N.+Behrman" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Max Egremont, <i>Siegfried Sassoon: A Life</i> (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2005), pp. 246-247. Egremont describes their initial bond, on Behrman's part, as one of affection bordering on hero-worship of the British poet and veteran of the trenches.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">John Stuart Roberts, <i>Siegfried Sassoon</i> (London: Metro Publishing, 2005), p. 148.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ted Morgan, <i>Maugham: A Biography</i> (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980), pp. 447-448.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Morgan, pp. xiv-xv. Behrman was helpful to Ted Morgan in the preparation of his 1980 biography of Maugham, and that biography is dedicated to Behrman.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Reed, pp. 58-60.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Reed, pp. 62-67.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Reed, pp. 103-105.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Joseph Berger, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/books/barbara-gelb-dead-biographer-of-eugene-oneill.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries&action=click&contentCollection=obituaries&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront">[1]</a>", <i>New York Times</i>, 9 February 2017</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._N._Behrman&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Atkinson, Brooks. <i>Broadway.</i> New York: Atheneum, 1970.</li> <li>Gross, Robert F. <i>S. N. Behrman: A Research and Production Sourcebook.</i> Greenwich, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethan_Mordden" title="Ethan Mordden">Mordden, Ethan</a>. <i>All That Glittered: The Golden Age of Drama on Broadway, 1919-1959.</i> New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007.</li> <li>Reed, Kenneth T. <i>S. N. Behrman.</i> Twayne Publishers, 1975.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=S._N._Behrman&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archives.nypl.org/mss/248/">S. N. Behrman Papers</a> at the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Public_Library" title="New York Public Library">New York Public Library</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadID=01121">S. N. Behrman Papers</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Harry_Ransom_Center" title="Harry Ransom Center">Harry Ransom Center</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://arcat.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=93/">S. N. Behrman Papers</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Wisconsin_Center_for_Film_and_Theater_Research" title="Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research">Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0067103/">S. N. Behrman</a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/8562">S. N. 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