The Ghost of Yankee Doodle
New York: Scribners, 1938.
Price: $100.00
Hardcover. First edition. Owner name, and a little foxing to the boards, and the first and last few leaves, near fine in near fine dustwrapper with rubbing and small tears at the extremities. A play about a Western family in an America in the grips of neutrality as the European war rages. The original production featured Ethel Barrymore, who is depicted on the cover photograph. Howard was the first writer to win both a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and an Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
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Sidney Howard
birth name: Sidney Howard
born: 6/26/1891
died: 8/23/1939
Biography
American playwright whose works helped to bring psychological as well as theatrica realism to the stage. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore