Elia Kazan Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 5 pages of information about the life of Elia Kazan.

Elia Kazan Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 5 pages of information about the life of Elia Kazan.
This section contains 1,208 words
(approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Elia Kazan Biography

Encyclopedia of World Biography on Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan (born 1909) is known as the preeminent director of works by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. Kazan emerged as the leading exponent of psychological realism via his film and stage productions of the 1940s and 1950s. His works reflect both social struggle and personal pain.

Elia Kazan was born into a large family of Anatolian Greeks near Istanbul in 1909. Kazan's family came to the United States when he was four, and he grew up in the slums and suburbs of New York City. He was a reclusive child who read compulsively, often as an escape from working in the family business, the rug trade. Determined not to follow in his father's footsteps, the young Elia attended Williams College from 1926 to 1930, majoring in English literature. It was here that he developed his initial interest in theater, writing a prize-winning paper on the audience's emotional response to drama.

Kazan...

(read more)

This section contains 1,208 words
(approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Elia Kazan Biography
Copyrights
Gale
Elia Kazan from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.