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The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Jerome Lawrence

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Name: Jerome Lawrence
Variant Name: Jerome L. Schwartz, Jerome Lawrence Schwartz, Jerome Schwartz
Birth Date: July 14, 1915
Death Date: 2004
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Jerome Lawrence
6370 words, approx. 21.2 pages
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee are best known for two plays, Inherit the Wind ( performed in 1955) and The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (1970), which together had more than three million copies in print by the end of the 1990s. Although their writing p...


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The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail is a two-act play by Robert Edwin Lee and Jerome Lawrence. The play is based on the early life of the titular character, Henry David Thoreau, leading up to his night spent in a jail in Concord, Massachusetts. Plot The...


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The Washington Post
Night Without Parole; 'Thoreau in Jail,' Better On Paper Than Onstage
05/21/2003: 511 words, approx. 2 pages
Catalyst Theater Company, which has distinguished itself with exciting renderings of "Endgame" and "Woyzeck," has settled on a peculiar choice for the last production of its second season: "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail," a stodgy bio-drama by the authors of "Inherit the Wind."...
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Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Boys made up abduction tale; A suspect who spent a night in the Ramsey County jail was released.(NEWS)
06/28/2005: 319 words, approx. 1 pages
Byline: Matt McKinney; Staff Writer A pair of boys who were praised Sunday for evading a potential kidnapping at a St. Paul playground were caught lying a day later as they retold their story to investigators, police said. The attempted abduction...
 


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