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His autobiographical essays, also serialized in The New Yorker, appeared in two volumes, The Worcester Account (1955) and People in a Diary (1972). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1959.
As far as I'm concerned, this passage alone makes "The Worcester Account" worth reading: Why Providence Street needed two synagogues I never knew. Not long ago I heard a story which, for the first time, made me understand why. It concerned a deeply religious man who was wrecked on an island off Tierra del Fuego.
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If we let S. N. Behrman get away with a species of murder in The Worcester Account, it is not only because of his reputation or the fact that most of these reminiscences first appeared in the New Yorker, but because of the high sentimental regard in which most of us hold his themes: the small town (Worcester, Mass.), time past (the beginning of ...
The Worcester account by Behrman, S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel), 1893-1973. Publication date 1954 Topics Behrman, S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel), 1893-1973 Publisher New York ...
Oct 1, 1996 · The Worcester Account. Paperback – October 1, 1996. by S. N. Behrman (Author) 4.8 7 ratings. See all formats and editions. Book by Behrman, S.N. Report an issue with this product or seller. Print length. 267 pages.
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Fifty-three years later his recollection of growing up in the enclave Jewish community of Worcester, Massachusetts, appeared in the first of ten essays of reminiscence in the New Yorker. Subsequently those articles were collected, added to, and presented as The Worcester Account (1954).
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These volumes include Duveen (1952), a portrait of the art dealer Joseph Duveen, Baron of Millbank; The Worcester Account (1954), a collection of poignant autobiographical essays centered on the Providence Street of Behrman's youth; Portrait of Max (1960), about the writer and caricaturist Max Beerbohm; and The Suspended Drawing Room (1965) on ...
