Paul Eliot Green was an American playwright best known for his depictions of life in North Carolina during the first decades of the twentieth century. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1927 play, In Abraham's Bosom. Born in Buies Creek, NC, in Harnett County near Lillington, Green was educated at Buies Creek Academy . He went on to study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he joined The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies. Green also studied at Cornell University. Green first attracted attention with his 1925 one-act play The No 'Count Boy which was... produced by the New York Theatre Club. The next year his full-length play In Abraham's Bosom was produced by the Provincetown Players and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play was considered remarkable for its depiction of African Americans in the South. Its hero, a man of mixed racial ancestry, finds his idealistic attempts to better the lives of the African Americans around him doomed to failure. With this success, Green quickly was recognized as one of the leading regional voices in the American theatre.
more