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Elmer Rice

Book WriterBorn 1892, died 1967

Elmer Rice
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Elmer Rice (born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein, September 28, 1892 – May 8, 1967) was an American playwright. He is best known for his plays The Adding Machine (1923) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of New York tenement life, Street Scene (1929).

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Street Scene
Maria Golovin

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