BEHRMAN, S. N.

(1893-1973)

   Samuel Nathaniel Behrman was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and studied playwriting under George Pierce Baker at Harvard University. Between 1927 and 1964, he had a steady stream of drawing-room comedies with an edge of social criticism produced on Broadway, including The Second Man (1927), Meteor (1929), Biography* (1932), and No Time for Comedy* (1939).