Langdon Mitchell

Langdon Mitchell (17 February 1862, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 21 October 1935, Philadelphia) was an American playwright.

Plays

* "In a Season"
* "Becky Sharp", (1899), an adaptation of Thackeray's Vanity Fair
* "The Krutzer Sonata", an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata
* "The New York Idea", (1906), a social satire on marriage and divorce

Further reading

* "The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography". Volume 4. James T. White & Co., 1891.
* "L. E. Mitchell, 73, Playwright, Dies", "The New York Times", October 22, 1935, p. 22.
* "Who Was Who in America". Volume 1, 1897–1942. A.N. Marquis Co., 1943. (See also the Corrigenda on p. x)
* "Contemporary Authors". Volume 120. Gale Research, 1987.
* "The Oxford Companion to American Literature". Sixth edition. Oxford University Press, 1995.