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      • Zoë Akins was a popular and successful playwright from Missouri. She wrote professionally for over fifty years and won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1935. She paved the way for many women writers of the twentieth century. She showed other women how intelligence, creativity, and hard work can lead to success.
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    Zoe Byrd Akins (October 30, 1886 – October 29, 1958) was an American playwright, poet, and author. She won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for drama for The Old Maid . Early life. Zoe Akins in 1907. Zoe Byrd Akins was born in Humansville, Missouri, second of three children of Thomas Jasper and Sarah Elizabeth Green Akins.

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    Overview. Born. October 30, 1886 · Humansville, Missouri, USA. Died. October 29, 1958 · Los Angeles, California, USA (cancer) Mini Bio. Poet, playwright, novelist and screenwriter Zoë Akins was born on the day before Halloween in 1886 in Humansville, Missouri.

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    Poet, playwright, novelist and screenwriter Zoë Akins was born on the day before Halloween in 1886 in Humansville, Missouri. She was home-schooled before attending the Monticello Seminary in Godfrey, Illinois, and Hosmer Hall in St. Louis for her education.

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  7. scriptmag.com › history › poems-plays-pulitzersPoems, Plays, Pulitzers: Screenwriter Zoe Akins Did it All

    Oct 18, 2023 · Though she never wrote a horror film, to celebrate Halloween this month’s focus is screenwriter, poet, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Zoe Akins, born on October 30, 1886. In 1935 Akins would become the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the highest honor for a Broadway play in the United States, after Zona Gale (1921) and ...

  8. www.themoviedb.org › person › 1244303-zoe-akinsZoe Akins — The Movie Database (TMDB)

    Biography. From Wikipedia. Zoë Akins (October 30, 1886 – October 29, 1958) was a. Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, poet, and author. In the early 1930s, Akins became more active in film, writing several screenplays as well as licensing minor adaptations of her.

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    Biography. Zoe Akins (1886-1958) was a playwright, poet, critic and novelist. Born in the small town of Humansville, Missouri, she was encouraged to write by her father. Drawn to the theatre, she also briefly tried an acting career—but after a season of walk-ons, she decided to focus on writing.

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    Zoë Akins (October 30, 1886 – October 29, 1958) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, poet, and author. Her first major dramatic work was Papa, written in 1914. The comedy failed, but she continued to write. She followed early failure with The Magical City and Declassée, two plays that were moderately successful.

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