Howard Teichmann (1916–1987)

Drama critic, author, lecturer, and actor Alexander Woollcott was a famous wit and a diamond in the tiara that was the Algonquin Round Table, a collection of some of the wittiest and brightest men and women of American letters in the early twentieth century. Woollcott's irascibility and acerbic nature were famous and he was immortalized as the leading character (only slightly disguised) in the Kaufman and Hart play THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER. Howard Teichmann, who wrote a splendid biography of playwright and fellow Algonquian George S. Kaufman, brings Woollcott to fascinating life in this clear-eyed biography.… (mais)