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    Elmer Rice (born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein, September 28, 1892 – May 8, 1967) was an American playwright. He is best known for his plays The Adding Machine (1923) and his Pulitzer Prize -winning drama of New York tenement life, Street Scene (1929).

  2. Elmer Rice (born Sept. 28, 1892, New York City—died May 8, 1967, Southampton, Hampshire, Eng.) was an American playwright, director, and novelist noted for his innovative and polemical plays. Rice graduated from the New York Law School in 1912 but soon turned to writing plays.

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  3. Elmer Rice was a versatile and prolific writer. He was not only a serious dramatist, with more than thirty published plays to his credit at the time of his death, but also a novelist of...

  4. Jun 11, 2018 · Elmer Rice (1892-1967) was an American playwright and novelist who wrote On Trial, The Adding Machine, Street Scene, and We, the People. He won the Pulitzer Prize, traveled to Europe, and worked for the Federal Theater Project and the Office of War Information.

  5. Elmer Rice (born Sept. 28, 1892, New York City—died May 8, 1967, Southampton, Hampshire, Eng.) was an American playwright, director, and novelist noted for his innovative and polemical plays. Rice graduated from the New York Law School in 1912 but soon turned to writing plays.

  6. Mar 20, 2015 · Elmer Rice, the noted American playwright and novelist, died in a Southampton hospital yesterday of pneumonia at the age of 74. He was taken off the liner France last week after...

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  8. Rice was a campaigner for social justice and an outspoken critic of censorship. From: Rice, Elmer in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature » Subjects: Literature