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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.
Contents
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
Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) (1928–1940) Benjamin Glazer (1928) · Hanns Kräly (1929) · Joseph Farnham, Martin Flavin, Frances Marion and Lennox Robinson (1930) · Howard Estabrook (1931) · Edwin J. Burke (1932) · Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason (1933) · Robert Riskin (1934) · Dudley Nichols (1935) · Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney (1936) · Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg and Norman Reilly Raine (1937) · Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb and George Bernard Shaw (1938) · Sidney Howard (1939) · Donald Ogden Stewart (1940)
Complete list · (1928–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–2020) Categories:- 1883 births
- 1967 deaths
- American dramatists and playwrights
- American novelists
- American screenwriters
- People from San Francisco, California
- Pulitzer Prize for the Novel winners
- Writers from California
- American screenwriter stubs
- American novelist, 19th century birth stubs
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