James A. Herne

James A. Herne, born James Ahearn in 1839 in New York State, in Cohoes or in Troy depending on the sources, was the son of Irish immigrants. He left school at thirteen for a brush factory and made his stage debut at twenty. In San Francisco, as stage manager and then theatre director, he wrote his first plays with David Belasco and married the actress Katharine Corcoran, who would create his great roles; three of their daughters would also act. A friend of the economist Henry George and a supporter of the single tax, he was nicknamed the American Ibsen. He died in New York in 1901.

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• TheatreMargaret FlemingJames A. Herne · 1890LiteraturePublic domain