Young, Stark

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Dates:
Birth 1881-10-11
Death 1963-01-06
Americans,
English,

Biographical notes:

American author and critic.

From the description of Belle Isle : typescript unsigned, 1940 July 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129868

American journalist and dramatist.

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Bedford, New York, to Belle da Costa Greene, 1944 Jun. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584560

American author.

From the description of Letter to Minnie Nielson Butler [manuscript], 1950 March 14. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647862031

Epithet: American author

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001305.0x0003ab

A native of Mississippi, Young obtained a masters degree from Columbia University and joined the faculties of the University of Mississippi, University of Texas, and Amherst College before moving in the 1920s to New York to become an independent artist. As a scholar, playwright, and director, Young's experience made him a brilliant editor of Theatre Arts magazine and critic for the New Republic from 1921 until he retired in 1947. His drama criticism was informed by historical scholarship, by his own experience writing poetry, plays and fiction, and by practical knowledge of lighting, and costume design gained as a director of a performing company. His four novels and his other writings endorsed the traditional southern values of family and the land.

From the description of Stark Young letters to Mrs. Scribner, between 1921 and 1947. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 106493116

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Subjects:

  • American literature
  • Drama
  • Dramatists, American
  • Literature

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  • Authors
  • Dramatists

Places:

  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)

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