Philip Barry

Philip Barry was born in 1896 in Rochester, New York, into an Irish Catholic family, and lost his father in his first year. A student at Yale, he broke off to work at the State Department, then followed George Pierce Baker's playwriting workshop at Harvard, which Eugene O'Neill and Thomas Wolfe also attended. He wrote some twenty plays, alternating society comedy and metaphysical drama: the former succeeded, the latter puzzled audiences. He died in New York in 1949.

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• TheatreThe Philadelphia StoryPhilip Barry · 1939Literature