George S. Kaufman
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Emerging from a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, he briefly pursued legal studies before abandoning the field for a series of odd jobs and a turn toward journalism, where he first supplied humor to Franklin P. Adams’s column and later became drama editor of The New York Times, a post he held until 1930. His Broadway debut arrived in 1918, and from 1921 through 1958 he either wrote or directed a new pl…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources