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  1. Beatrice Bakrow Kaufman (January 20, 1895 – October 6, 1945) was an American editor, writer, and playwright. Although chiefly remembered as the wife of director, humorist, and playwright George S. Kaufman, she had a distinguished literary career of her own, and during the 1930s and 1940s, was regarded as "one of the wittiest women in New York ...

  2. Writer and playwright Beatrice Kaufman in 1934. Image courtesy of The Library of Congress. In Brief. A member of the famed Algonquin Round Table, Beatrice Kaufman made an impact on the American literary scene both for editing important modernist writers and for writing her own subversively feminist stories and plays.

  3. Beatrice Kaufman. Beatrice Bakrow, the daughter of Julius Bakrow and Sarah Adler Bakrow, in Oxford Street, Rochester, on 20th January, 1895. According to her biographer, Michael Galchinsky: "She had two brothers, Leonard and Julian. Although few direct references to her Jewishness found their way into her later editorial work and writings, her ...

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  5. Nov 21, 2004 · Beatrice Kaufman was as formidable a figure as her husband. She had done clever work as a press agent, a script reader, a book editor, but it was her style, her intelligence, her judgment that...

  6. Mrs. Beatrice Bakrow Kaufman, writer and editor, wife of George S. Kaufman, the playwright, died last night at her home, 410 Park Avenue, after a brief illness, in her fifty-first year.

  7. Beatrice Kaufman in 1934. Beatrice Bakrow Kaufman (January 20, 1895 – October 6, 1945) was an American editor, writer, and playwright. Though chiefly remembered as the wife of director, humorist, and playwright George S. Kaufman, she had a distinguished literary career of her own, and during the 1930s and '40s, was regarded as "one of the ...

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