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People in a Diary (1972), a memoir, could also be regarded as a major Behrman work and a well-crafted example of its genre.
A gallant and graceful memoir by the 77 year-old Behrman in which the playwright and biographer brings to our time personalities long gone, forgotten, or effaced.
Playwright/novelist/theatrical producer S.N. Behrman explores the people and events chronicled in his personal journals, beginning in the mid 1920s. Genres Nonfiction 338 pages, Hardcover
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People in a Diary was the last work that Behrman wrote; he completed it in 1972, a year before his death. Like most of his other non-fiction prose works, much of it was first published serially in The New Yorker magazine. It later appeared in book form in an edition brought out by Little Brown.
Behrman spent his last years mining the meticulous diaries he had kept since college, resulting in the memoir People In A Diary (1972). Behrman's important contributions to American culture were acknowledged through his induction into the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1943); the award of an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from ...
Behrman spent his last years mining the meticulous diaries he had kept since college, resulting in the memoir People in a Diary (1972). Behrman's important contributions to American culture were acknowledged through his induction into the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1943); the award of an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from ...
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Samuel Nathaniel Behrman Little, Brown , 1972 - Authors, American - 338 pages Noted American playwright reminisces about his experiences with literary and theatrical friends over a half century.
