Martin Flavin

For the Irish Member of Parliament, see Martin Flavin (politician).

Martin Archer Flavin (November 2, 1883 – December 27, 1967) was an American playwright and novelist.

He was awarded the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Journey in the Dark.

Flavin was born in San Francisco, California, and died in Carmel, California.

Works

• "The most flavin' boy around" (1921)
• "The Holy Hand Grenade" (1920)

Novels

• The Road to the City (1921)
• Children of the Moon (1924)
• Caleb Stone's Death Watch (1925)
• Lady of the Rose (1925)
• Brains and Other One-Act Plays (1926)
• Service for Two (1927)
• The Criminal Code (1929)
• Spindrift (1930)
• Sunday (1933)
• Blue Jeans (1937)
• Mr. Littlejohn (1940)
• Journey in the Dark (1944), for which he was awarded the 1944 Pulitzer Prize
• Cameron Hill (1957)

Non-fiction

• Black and White: From the Cape to the Congo (1950)
• Red Poppies and White Marble (1962)

Plays

• Children of the Moon (1923, produced on Broadway 1923)
• Emergency Case (1923)
• Caleb Stone's Death Watch (1923, produced on Broadway 1924)
• Achilles Had a Heel (1924, produced on Broadway 1935)
• Lady of the Rose (1925, produced on Broadway 1925)
• Service for Two (1926, produced on Broadway 1926)
• Brains (1926, produced on Broadway 1926)
• The Criminal Code (1929, produced on Broadway 1929), the basis for several motion pictures: the 1931 film of the same name, the 1931 Spanish-language film El Código penal, Penitentiary (1938), and Convicted (1950)
• Broken Dishes (1929, produced on Broadway 1930), the basis for the 1931 motion picture Too Young to Marry, the 1936 motion picture Love Begins at Twenty (aka All One Night), and the 1940 motion picture Calling All Husbands; adapted for television in 1951 episode of "Pulitzer Prize Playhouse"
• Crossroads (1929, produced on Broadway 1929), the basis for the 1932 motion picture The Age of Consent
• Tapestry in Gray (1935, produced on Broadway 1935)
• Around the Corner (1936, produced on Broadway 1936)

Screenplays

• The Big House (1930) (additional dialogue)
• Passion Flower (1930) (adaptation of novel by Kathleen Norris)
• Laughing Sinners (1931) (dialogue) (uncredited) ... aka Complete Surrender (USA)
• Three Who Loved (1931)

External links

• Martin Flavin at the Internet Movie Database
• Martin Flavin at the Internet Broadway Database
• Photos of the first edition of Journey in the Dark

Persondata
Name	Flavin, Martin
Alternative names	Flavin, Martin Archer (full name)
Short description	Novelist, playwright, screenwriter
Date of birth	November 2, 1883
Place of birth	San Francisco, California, United States
Date of death	December 27, 1967
Place of death	Carmel, California, United States