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Lawson, John Howard
Lawson, John Howard (1894–1977), playwright. He was born in Manhattan and educated at Williams College where he began writing plays, several of them produced outside of New York. His first play to reach Broadway was the expressionistic satire Roger Bloomer (1923), and his extreme left‐wing bent was even more pronounced in the labor drama Processional (1925). Lawson continued, although with less success, to write similarly controversial pieces, most memorably the Group Theatre mounting of his Marching Song (1937). Ironically, he left the theatre for more lucrative film writing, remaining an important screenwriter until he was blacklisted in the McCarthy era. Lawson was also the author of Theory and Technique of Playwriting (1936).
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Lawson, John Howard." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Lawson, John Howard." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-LawsonJohnHoward.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Lawson, John Howard." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-LawsonJohnHoward.html |
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John Lawson
John Lawson d. 1711, English explorer of North Carolina. He came to the Carolinas in 1700 and within the next few years traveled approximately 1,000 mi (1,600 km) through its unexplored parts. His detailed, lively description of the flora, the fauna, and the Native Americans, A New Voyage to Carolina (1709), was several times reissued as the History of Carolina. Lawson was one of the incorporators (1705) of Bath, N.C. He was made surveyor general of North Carolina in 1708 and was one of the founders of New Bern, N.C. He was captured and put to death in the Tuscarora uprising of 1711.
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"John Lawson." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "John Lawson." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Lawson-J.html "John Lawson." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Lawson-J.html |
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