John Gassner papers 1950-1964

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John Gassner papers 1950-1964

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0560

The papers consist of correspondence, teaching files, and miscellaneous clippings relating to John Gassner's activities as a professor of playwriting at Yale University.

0.5 linear foot (1 box)

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6350617

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Gassner, John, 1903-1967

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John Gassner was born in Marajaros-Sziget, Hungary in 1903, and emigrated to the United States in 1911. He received an A.B. (1924) and M.A. (1925) from Columbia University. He began his career as a book reviewer for the New York Herald Tribune (1926-1928), and was play editor and chairman of the play department of the Theater Guild (1931-1944). Gassner taught dramatic criticism and playwriting at colleges and universities including Hunter College, Columbia University, the University of Michigan,...