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James Avery Hopwood (May 28, 1882 – July 1, 1928) was an American playwright of the Jazz Age. He had four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920. Early life [ edit ]
The leading light of early twentieth-century light comedy and farce and one of the most commercially successful playwrights of his era, Hopwood, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, graduated from the University of Michigan, which would later be the beneficiary of much of his substantial estate.
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- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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HOPWOOD, AVERY (28 May 1882-1 July 1928) was a native Clevelander who became Broadway's leading playwright in the era immediately preceding that of Eugene O'Neill.
James Avery Hopwood (May 28, 1882 – July 1, 1928) was an American playwright of the Jazz Age. He had four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920. First introduced to the homosexual scene by Carl Van Vechten in the early 1910s, he had an ongoing, tempestuous, and often physically abusive (to Hopwood) relationship with a young ...
Avery Hopwood : his life and plays. by. Sharrar, Jack F., 1949-. Publication date. 1998. Topics. Hopwood, Avery, 1882-1928, Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography. Publisher. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press.
Jan 27, 2023 · Today's words of wisdom come from Avery Hopwood, an incandescent early 20th century American playwright who died before his time. I became curious about Hopwood eight years ago in a roundabout way, as a winter storm named Juno slammed into the Eastern Seaboard.
NICE, France, July 1 (AP).--The American playwright Avery Hopwood was taken suddenly ill and died while bathing today in the sea at Juan-les-Pins, on the French Riviera, where he had been...
