- Much filmed Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. A former legal student, he hit the big time with his first play "On Trial", which made him $100,000. He is best known, however, for the satirical "The Adding Machine" (which he wrote in seventeen days) and the urban chronicle "Street Scene".
- His 1929 play, from which was derived the namesake film Street Scene (1931), won a Pulitzer Prize (he also wrote the screenplay for the film)).
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