Shimon Wincelberg

Emerging from a Polish-Jewish family in Kiel, Germany, and escaping to the United States in 1938, he entered the literary field after serving in Army intelligence during World War II, an experience that later shaped his dramatic work. Beginning with a short story sale in 1953, he contributed pieces to Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker and Punch before turning to the stage, where his 1959 Broadway pl… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources