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Elmer Rice

Who

Elmer Rice · Arts & Literature

What

Pulitzer Prize for Drama

When

1892, New York City, USA — 1967, Southampton, England

Where

United States

Biography

Elmer Rice is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Pulitzer Prize for Drama

How & why

Elmer Rice was an American playwright who won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Street Scene, his tenement drama of New York life, and earlier pioneered expressionist theater on Broadway with The Adding Machine (1923). A champion of free speech and civil liberties, he helped shape American social drama. Born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein in New York, he came from a Jewish family.

Sources & external links

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Contributions & Sources

Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama