Alien Corn

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.

Price: $650.00

Hardcover. First edition. Fine without dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by the author. A relatively short running but important play which featured Katharine Cornell and Luther Adler in the original Broadway run. Very scarce signed – Howard died in a farm accident in 1939. He was awarded a posthumous Academy Award for his screenplay for *Gone With the Wind* (making him the first writer to win both a screenplay Oscar and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama).

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Item #363729 Alien Corn. Sidney HOWARD.
Alien Corn
Alien Corn

Sidney Howard
birth name: Sidney Howard
born: 6/26/1891
died: 8/23/1939

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American playwright whose works helped to bring psychological as well as theatrica realism to the stage. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore