Uncle Sam Presents: A Memoir of the Federal Theatre, 1935-1939

by Tony Buttitta, Barry Witham, Don Freeman (Illustrator), Malcolm Cowley (Contribution by), Harold Clurman (Introduction)

Overview

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812278262
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	05/29/1982
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Tony Buttitta (1907-2004) left graduate school in th eearly 1930s to start Contempo, a magazine that achieved fame with such contributors as William Faulkner, James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, and many other notable authors. He was a correspondent for Variety during World War II and eventually became a top theatrical press agent on Broadway. His published work includes After the Good Gay Times: A Summer with F. Scott Fitzgerald in Asheville, N.C. Barry Witham is Professor Emeritus of Theater History at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study and A Sustainable Theatre: Jasper Deeter at Hedgerow. His essays on the American theater have appeared in a variety of publications, including Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, and the Dictionary of American Biography.