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  GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Jerome Lawrence
Lawrence, in addition to his service in the military, as a young man worked as a journalist, reporter, and telegraph editor of small Ohio daily papers and as a continuity editor at KMPC in Beverly Hills.
Lawrence is the recipient of honorary doctorates from Villanova, the College of Wooster, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Ohio State University.
Lawrence was a visiting professor at Ohio State and a master playwright at New York University, Baylor University, and the Salzburg Seminar in American studies.
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 Jerome Lawrence | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Jerome Lawrence, a playwright and theater director whose plays include the classic courtroom drama "Inherit the Wind," died Feb. 29 at his home in Malibu, his niece Deborah Robison said.
Lawrence and his partner again captured the zeitgeist, this time during the Vietnam era, with their play about Thoreau's act of civil disobedience in refusing to pay taxes to support a war against Mexico.
Lawrence was a writer for CBS radio and Lee was working for the Young and Rubicam advertising agency.
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 Ohio Reading Road Trip | Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Biography
Jerome Lawrence was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio; his parents, Samuel and Sarah, were (respectively) a printer and a poet.
Lawrence left Cleveland for Columbus in the early 1930s, where he studied at the Ohio State University and earned a bachelor's degree in 1937.
Robert E. Lee was born not far from Jerome Lawrence, in a distant suburb of Cleveland called Elyria.
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 Jerome Lawrence, at 88; co-wrote 'Mame' - The Boston Globe
Jerome Lawrence, who with Robert E. Lee formed one of the most successful and acclaimed writing partnerships in American theater, generating such works as "Inherit the Wind" and the musical "Mame," died at his home Sunday in Malibu, Calif., from complications related to a stroke he suffered in 2002.
The most frequently performed Lawrence and Lee play, however, is the drama of conscience "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail." The playwriters center the story on transcendentalist author's trial on charges of civil disobedience after he refused to pay taxes during the Mexican-American War.
Lawrence worked as a reporter in the 1930s at the Wilmington News Journal and New Lexington Daily News in Ohio, before moving West to work at a radio station in Beverly Hills.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/03/02/jerome_lawrence_at_88_co_wrote_mame?mode=PF   (491 words)

  
 Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee Theater Research Institute - Ohio State University Libraries
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee Theater Research Institute - Ohio State University Libraries
Welcome to the homepage of The Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute (TRI) of The Ohio State University.
The Lawrence and Lee Institute collects, preserves, maintains, and makes accessible research materials pertaining to performing arts, with a primary emphasis upon live performance.
library.osu.edu /sites/tri   (186 words)

  
 William Inge Theatre Festival - Jerome Lawrence
Cleveland-born, Lawrence was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Ohio State University and earned a Doctor of Humane Letters degree in 1963.
He was honored at "An Evening with Jerome Lawrence and Friends" on Sunday, April 17 at 8:00 p.m.
She was featured at "An Evening with Jerome Lawrence and Friends" on Sunday, April 17 at 8:00 p.m.
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 About: Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee Theater Research Institute - Ohio State University Libraries
Born in Ohio, Lawrence and Lee received many of the most prestigious awards in the theatre, including the Donaldson Award, the Ohioana Award, Variety Critics Poll--both in New York and London, two Peabody Awards for distinguished Achievement in Broadcasting, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Theatre Association.
Lawrence served on the Boards of Directors of the American Conservatory Theatre, the National Repertory Theatre, the Dramatist Guild, the Writers Guild of America, and the Authors Guild of America.
Lawrence and Lee were named Fellows of the American Theatre at the Kennedy Center in 1990.
www.library.osu.edu /sites/tri/about/lawrence&lee.php   (657 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Playwright Jerome Lawrence dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Lawrence died at his home Sunday from complications related to a stroke he suffered a year and a half ago, according to his niece, Deborah Robison.
Lawrence and Lee collaborated for more than 50 years on such projects as The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail and Auntie Mame, a comedy about a freethinking woman that was adapted from a novel for the big screen, and for the stage as the musical Mame.
Lawrence worked as a reporter in the 1930s at the Wilmington News Journal and New Lexington Daily News in his native Ohio, before moving West to work at a radio station in Beverly Hills.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-03-02-lawrence-dies_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA   (288 words)

  
 WOSU Presents Ohioana Authors | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Ohioans Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee spent their combined half-century careers uncovering truths about life through their works for the stage.
Lawrence and Lee are best known as the team that wrote Inherit the Wind, Auntie Mame and The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail.
The pair met in New York, when Lawrence was a writer for CBS radio and Lee was a writer at the Young and Rubicam Agency, a month after WWII's Pearl Harbor attack.
www.ohioana-authors.org /lawrence_lee/index.php   (287 words)

  
 Jerome Lawrence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
\Jerome Lawrence Schwartz (July 14, 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio - February 29, 2004 in Malibu, California) was an American playwright.
He is best known for Auntie Mame, Inherit the Wind, and First Monday in October, which he co-wrote with Robert E. Lee.
Although his works are still produced, Lawrence's lone Tony Award nomination was for Best Musical, for Mame (book).
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 Amazon.ca: Inherit the Wind: Books: Jerome Lawrence,Robert E. Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In this introduction to "Inherit the Wind" Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee attempt to put the play into historical perspective: "'Inherit the Wind' is hot history.
Lawrence and Lee's fictionalized account of the Scopes trial was not only the first major work to touch on the Monkey trial after World War II, it was the most significant in terms of public knowledge about the trial.
Lawrence and Lee did a wonderful job depicting such a historical event such as the Scopes Monkey Trial.
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 Jerome Lawrence - Telegraph
Young Jerome was educated at Glenville High School, before studying at Ohio State University, and then at UCLA.
During the war Lawrence worked, in the rank of staff sergeant, as an assistant in the department of the Secretary of War before serving as an Army correspondent in North Africa and Italy.
Lawrence, on his own, produced, in 1974, Actor: The Life and Times of Paul Muni, now regarded as an exemplary theatre biography.
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 Jerome Lawrence - The Huffington Post   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Lawrence said it will be risky to try to suppress activity that seems to have...
Social critic and Thirty years later, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee wrote the play "Inherit The Wind," based on the events that took place during that hot summer in...
Playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee used the outline of the Scopes Trial to comment metaphorically on their own era: the ease with which...
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 Jerome Lawrence Biography and Summary
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Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee are best known for two plays, Inherit the Wind (performed in 1955) and The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (1970), which together had more than three million copies in print by the end of the 1990s.
Jerome Lawrence Schwartz(July 14, 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio- February 29, 2004 in Malibu, California) was an American playwright.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Inherit the Wind: Books: Jerome Lawrence,Robert E. Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In this introduction to "Inherit the Wind" Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee attempt to put the play into historical perspective: "'Inherit the Wind' is hot history.
There was such a figure of reconciliation during the trial, defense lawyer Dudley Field Malone, but he remains the most forgotten figure of the trial as the idea of the compatibility between Genesis and evolution has come to be rejected more and more by both sides.
Lawrence and Lee's fictionalized account of the Scopes trial was not only the first major work to touch on the Monkey trial after World War II, it was the most significant in terms of public knowledge about the trial.
www.amazon.co.uk /Inherit-Wind-Jerome-Lawrence/dp/0345466276   (1115 words)

  
 Selected Plays of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee:0814206468:Lawrence, Jerome; Lee Robert E.; Woods, Alan; Lee, ...
Collected here for the first time are the major plays of award-winning authors Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
Although they are known primarily as successful commercial writers, Lawrence and Lee have always shared a passionate commitment to larger social issues.
Their plays were written not just to entertain a broad audience but to present some "problem" ideas - for example, the evolution versus creationism debate in Inherit the Wind, perhaps their most famous collaboration.
www.ecampus.com /book/0814206468   (268 words)

  
 Parrish Books INHERIT THE WIND By Jerome Lawrence (and Lee, Robert E.)
Lawrence signed this book at the age of 85.
The play was made into a successful major motion picture in 1960 starring Spencer Tracy, Frederic March and Gene Kelly and directed by Stanley Kramer.
Jerome Lawrence's verified signature is very scarce, especially on copies of "Inherit the Wind" and this is a beautiful copy.
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 Jerome Lawrence - playwright
To search for all published plays by Jerome Lawrence click on one of the bookstore links above.
Lawrence and Lee's plays have been translated and performed in thirty-One languages.
As the play ends, an uncertain Frank tentatively samples his own wares-and slowly but surely begins to experience the unearthly sensations for which he had scoffed at the others.
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 Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee Biography
From the 1940s until Lee's death in 1994, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee were a writing and publishing team.
During World War II, Lawrence and Lee co-founded the Armed Forces Radio Services, which provided entertainment and news to thousands of troops.
Jerome Lawrence (original name, Jerome L. Schwartz) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 14, 1915, the son of a printer and a poet.
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 Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee Theater Research Institute - Ohio State University Libraries
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee Theater Research Institute - Ohio State University Libraries
The Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute
The Lawrence and Lee Institute collects, preserves, maintains, and makes accessible research materials pertaining to performing arts, with a primary emphasis upon live performance.
www.library.osu.edu /sites/tri   (186 words)

  
 Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Jerome Lawrence
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (Book) met in 1939 and shortly thereafter became an inseparable pair.
In addition to adapting Patrick Dennis's novel Auntie Mame into a comedy hit on Broadway, the prolific pair are also well-known for Inherit the Wind, which ran for three years on Broadway.
Lawrence and Lee won two Peabody Awards for distinguished Achievement in Broadcasting and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Theatre Association.
www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entity_id=15709&source_type=A   (112 words)

  
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Selected Plays of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail": A Study Guide from Gale's "Drama for Students" (Volume 16, Chapter 12)
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's "Inherit the Wind": A Study Guide from Gale's "Drama for Students" (Volume 02, Chapter 4)
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 Some Tales by Jerome K. Jerome : Arthur's Classic Novels
He said that if we were mean and cowardly and false-hearted enough to stoop to such a shabby trick, he supposed he couldn't help it; and that if I didn't intend to finish the whole bottle of claret myself
What a good time our ancestors must have had was borne in upon me when, on one occasion, I appeared in character at a fancy dress ball.
They said he had no soul, but there they were wrong.
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 MonkeyNotes Study Guide Summary-Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee -Free Book notes/Chapter Summary
MonkeyNotes-Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
The play opens with the town's excitement over the upcoming trial of one of its schoolteachers, Bert Cates.
Drummond tells her that a wise person is one who can say she does not know the answer.
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 Amazon.com: Inherit the Wind: Books: Jerome Lawrence,Robert E. Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
"Inherit the Wind," the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, premiered on Broadway during the 1955-56 theater season.
Lawrence and Lee write superb dialogue, and create vivid characters in Brady, Drummond, and the rest.
Because of this a very famous lawyer named Bradley was sent to represent hillsboro while Cates's represenative was a very unwelcomed man a man by the name of Henry Drummund.
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