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S. N. Behrman was born in 1893 in Massachusetts to Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants. He was a prolific journalist, playwright and writer of short stories. Behrman was a popular figure on Broadway and in Hollywood, but his finest work was published in The New Yorker, for whom he profiled George Gershwin, Max Beerbohm, and Lord Duveen amongst others. Behrman died in New York in 1973.
