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James Avery Hopwood (May 28, 1882 – July 1, 1928) was an American playwright of the Jazz Age. He had four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920, namely "The Gold Diggers," "The Bat" and "Spanish Love" and "Ladies' Night (In a Turkish Bath)".
Avery Hopwood. Writer: The Bat Whispers. American playwright, many of whose plays were filmed. The leading light of early twentieth-century light comedy and farce and one of the most commercially successful playwrights of his era, Hopwood, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, graduated from the University of Michigan, which would later be the beneficiary of much of his substantial estate.
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HOPWOOD, AVERY (28 May 1882-1 July 1928) was a native Clevelander who became Broadway's leading playwright in the era immediately preceding that of Eugene O'Neill. The son of a west side butcher, he attended WEST HIGH SCHOOL and briefly sampled Western Reserve Univ. (see CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ) before completing his education at the Univ. of Michigan.
Hopwood, Avery, 1882-1928, Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography Publisher Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled; inlibrary Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 850980050
In 1920 Avery Hopwood was America's most successful playwright, achieving the distinction of having four concurrent hits on the Broadway stage. Jack F. Sharrar's critical biography makes use of a rich array of primary sources--including Hopwood's unpublished novel and his letters to such friends as Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten, and Mary Roberts Rinehart--to chronicle Hopwood's life and career.
In 1920 Avery Hopwood was America's most successful playwright, achieving the distinction of having four concurrent hits on the Broadway stage. Jack F. Sharrar's critical biography makes use of a rich array of primary sources--including Hopwood's unpublished novel and his letters to such friends as Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten, and Mary Roberts Rinehart--to chronicle Hopwood's life and career.
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In 1915, influential American artist Florine Stettheimer painted Avery Hopwood. The portrait depicts Hopwood standing in front of a sign for his play, "Fair and Warmer." This large-scale and gorgeous portrait presides over the Hopwood Room to this day, as it has since 1944 (in its current setting since 1950, when Professor Cowden moved us here to the first floor of Angell Hall).
