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Harry Behn (September 24, 1898 – September 6, 1973) was an American former screenwriter. He was involved in writing scenes and continuities for a number of screenplays, including the war film The Big Parade in 1925, and Hell's Angels. He graduated from Harvard University in 1922.
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Henry Behn was born September 24, 1898, in McCade, a mining camp near Prescott, Ariz. He spent his youth in mining camps and early showed a talent as an illustrator and painter. He attended high school in Phoenix, Ariz., and after graduation found work as a travelogue cameraman. He briefly enrolled in Stanford University, then attended Harvard Univ...
Behn and his family settled in Tucson, Arizona, about 1938 and he immersed himself in various writing and cultural vocations at the University of Arizona. From 1938 to1947 he taught creative writing and he founded and managed the university radio bureau; he founded the University of Arizona Press in 1960. He was also active in civic affairs in Tucs...
Peter Beilenson’s Peter Pauper Press in Mount Vernon, N.Y., published mainly gift books, which included vest-pocket sized, woodcut-illustrated editions of Beilenson’s translations of classic Japanese haiku masters. When Beilenson died in 1962, work was not quite finished on the fourth volume, Haiku Harvest. Behn was enlisted to complete the project...
Cricket Songs was Behn’s first solo book of haiku translations, and he thought of it as an adult book. A letter from his editor at Harcourt Brace & World, recorded that William Jovanovich (president and CEO of the publishing giant) had himself decided not to issue it on the adult list.5 In fact, the book proved popular with both children and adults...
Haiku translations
1. Beilenson, Peter, and Harry Behn, trans. Haiku Harvest. Mount Vernon, N.Y: Peter Pauper Press, 1962. Series: Japanese Haiku 4. There were at least two editions with identical text but different illustrations. 2. Behn, Harry, trans. Cricket Songs: Japanese Haiku with Pictures Selected from Sesshu and other Japanese Masters. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964. 3. Behn, Harry, trans. More Cricket Songs: Japanese Haiku Illustrated with Pictures by Japanese Masters. New York: Harcourt Brac...
Other published works
1. Behn, Harry, author and illustrator. All Kinds of Time. New York: Harcourt, Brace [1950]. Juvenile literature. 2. Behn, Harry. Crickets and Bullfrogs and Whispers of Thunder: Poems and Pictures. San Diego: Harcourt Bruce Jovanovich, ©1984. 3. Behn, Harry. Chrysalis: Concerning Children and Poetry. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1968]. Essays, poems, and anecdotes concerning children and poetry. Includes a chapter about haiku. 4. Behn, Harry.The Faraway Lurs. Cleveland: World, 1963. Ju...
Additional sources
1. Beilenson, Peter, trans. Cherry Blossoms: Translations of Poems by Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki and Others. Mount Vernon, N.Y: Peter Pauper Press, 1960. Series: Japanese Haiku 3. 2. Beilenson, Peter, trans. The Four Seasons: Japanese Haiku Written by Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, and Many Others. Mount Vernon, N.Y.: Peter Pauper Press, 1958. Series: Japanese Haiku 2. 3. Beilenson, Peter, trans. Japanese Haiku: Two Hundred Twenty Examples of Seventeen-Syllable Poems by Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki,...
For a consideration of Behn’s early work, see Sister Marie Cecile, S.S.J. “Harry Behn: Wizard of Song and Lore.” The Catholic Educator (October 1966), 46–49.“Biographical/Historical Notes.” Henry Behn Papers, 1932–1973.Helaine V. Dauphinais. “A Study of Harry Behn’s Poetry for Children.” Typescript. Harry Behn Papers, 1932–1973.Clipping in Behn Scrapbook 3. Harry Behn Papers, 1932–1973.Harry Behn (1898-1973) was an American screenwriter, painter, photographer, writer, and translator of haiku. He collaborated with Peter Beilenson on Haiku Harvest (1962) and wrote his own versions of Japanese classic haiku in Cricket Songs (1964) and More Cricket Songs (1971).
Harry Behn was a poet, writer, and illustrator for children and adults. He taught at the University of Arizona, founded the University of Arizona Press, and wrote and translated haiku and other genres.
Sep 10, 1973 · Harry Behn, a scenarist and author of children's books, died Wednesday on a trip to Seville, Spain. He was 74 years old and lived in Greenwich, Conn.
Sep 24, 2024 · (1898–1973), American poet who wrote and illustrated poems for children as well as adults. His exquisite novel for young adults, The Faraway Lurs (1963), relates how young lovers who lived ...
Harry Behn was a multifaceted artist who founded Phoenix Little Theatre, wrote screenplays, children's books, and translations, and became a Blackfoot Indian. He was born in Arizona, educated at Stanford and Harvard, and died in Spain.
Harry Behn has 41 books on Goodreads with 1165 ratings. Harry Behn’s most popular book is Halloween.
