Robert Thom

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Thom graduated from Yale in 1952 as a promising poet and earned a Rhodes Scholarship that took him to Oxford for a year of study. He broke into the New York theatre scene with the sale of his first play, The Minotaur, in 1954, and soon after contributed to the Broadway production Compulsion (1957), later adapting it for the 1959 film starring Orson Welles. Relocating to… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources