N. Richard Nash

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N. Richard Nash
BornNathan Richard Nusbaum
(1913-06-08)June 8, 1913
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedDecember 11, 2000(2000-12-11) (aged 87)
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
OccupationWriter, dramatist
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction, theatre
Spouse
Helena Taylor
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(m. 1935; div. 1954)​
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(m. 1955; div. 1955)​
Katherine Copeland
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(m. 1956)​
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Nathan Richard Nusbaum (June 8, 1913 – December 11, 2000), known as N. Richard Nash, was an American writer and dramatist best known for writing Broadway shows, including The Rainmaker.

Early life

Nash was born Nathan Richard Nusbaum in

bookbinder, and his wife Jenny (née Singer). He worked as a ten dollar per match boxer and graduated from South Philadelphia High School in 1930 before entering the University of Pennsylvania to study English and philosophy.[citation needed
]

Career

Nash published two books on philosophy, The Athenian Spirit and The Wounds of Sparta. Nash wrote his first play, Parting at Imsdorf, in 1940, which won the Maxwell Anderson Verse Drama Award. He next penned the Shakespearian-themed comedy The Second Best Bed, produced on Broadway in 1946. The highly acclaimed drama led to him writing more shows, including The Young and Fair (1948), See the Jaguar (1952, for which he won the International Drama Award in Cannes and the Prague Award), and The Rainmaker (1954, starring

Philco Television Playhouse one-act 1953 television production. It was translated to over 40 languages and made into a 1956 Hollywood film starring Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn, and a 1982 full-length TV production. The play was made into a Broadway musical, 110 in the Shade. Here Come the Brides (1968-1970, 52 episodes) was a Screen Gems television series developed by Nash; Nash wrote the series pilot of the same name.[citation needed
]

In the 1950s, Nash moved from New York to Hollywood to write the screenplay for

HBO Max.[7]

After selling Cry Macho, Nash began to write what he called "real novels" and discover that writing a novel was more flexible than writing a play and received much less criticism than writing a play.

Tony Award for Best Musical), and Saravà (1979). Nash's novels include East Wind, Rain, Radiance, The Last Magic, and an unpublished novel, The Wildwood. Under the pseudonym of John Roc, he wrote a play, Fire!, and a novel, Winter Blood. [8]

Personal life

In 1935, Nash married Helena Taylor, with whom he had one son, Christopher. They divorced in 1954. Nash was married to Janice Rule in 1955, but they divorced later that same year.[9][10] Later that year, he married Katherine Copeland, aka Katherine Kaplan, with whom he had two daughters, Jennifer and Amanda.[11][12]

Death

Nash died in Manhattan on December 11, 2000, aged 87.

Work

Nonfiction

  • The Wounds of Sparta
  • The Athenian Spirit

Drama

See the Jaguar by the Maribor Slovene National Theatre in 1964

Screenplays

  • Sainted Sisters (1948)
  • The Vicious Years (1950)
  • The Joker (1954)
  • Top of the World (1955)
  • Porgy and Bess (1959)
  • Saravá
  • Wildcat
  • Between the Darkness and the Dawn (1985)
  • The Touch
  • Echoes
  • Girls of Summer
  • The Young and Fair

Novels

  • Cry Macho (1975)
  • East, Wind Rain
  • The Last Magic
  • Winter Blood
  • Radiance
  • Aphrodite's Cave
  • Behold the Man
  • The Wildwood (2000)

Poetry

  • Absalom

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Stephen Wigler (October 3, 1985). "Return Of A Playwright Richard Nash Goes Back To The Stage -- But Not Broadway". Orlando Sentinel. p. E1. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
  2. ^ "KIRKUS REVIEW: Cry Macho by N. Richard Nash". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
  3. ^ Martin Levin (July 13, 1975). "Book Cry Macho, by N. Richard Nash, revd by Martin Levin". The New York Times. p. 732. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
  4. ^ Myra Yellin Goldfarb (April 20, 1991). "Royalties Still Pouring In For 'Rainmaker' Author". The Morning Call. p. A56. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
  5. ^ Stern, Marlo (May 25, 2011). "Arnold Schwarzenegger's Canceled Film: How 'Cry Macho' Parallels His Own Scandal". The Daily Beast. Retrieved February 3, 2018.
  6. ^ Justin Kroll (October 2, 2020). "Clint Eastwood Finds His Next Film, Coming On To Star And Direct 'Cry Macho' For Warner Bros". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on October 3, 2020. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  7. ^ Christopher Rosen (December 3, 2020). "Warner Bros. Will Debut Its Entire 2021 Theatrical Slate on HBO Max". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on December 3, 2020. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
  8. ISBN 978-0-8108-6963-9
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  9. ProQuest 179465196
    . Richard Nash, who recently married Janice Rule, sold 'The Rainmakers' to Philco for $2,000.
  10. ProQuest 1835906842
    . Actress Geraldine Page and groom called it quits. Ditto Janice Rule and playwright N. Richard Nash. (What they went thru to marry would have broken most backs.)
  11. ProQuest 311849344
    . Nathaniel Richard Nasbaum (N. Richard Nash), writer and playwright: born Philadelphia 8 June 1913; married 1935 Helena Taylor (one son; marriage dissolved 1954), 1956 Janice Rule (marriage dissolved 1956), 1956 Katherine Copeland (two daughters); died New York 11 December 2000.
  12. ProQuest 91371293
    . He is survived by two daughters, Jennifer Nash of New York and Amanda Nash of Cambridge, Mass, and a son, Christopher, of Warwickshire, England.

External links
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