N. Richard Nash

N. Richard Nash (June 8, 1913 – December 11, 2000) was a writer and dramatist best known for writing Broadway shows, including The Rainmaker.

Early life

Nash was born Nathan Richard Nusbaum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania the only son and youngest child of S. L. Nusbaum, a bookbinder, and his wife Jenny (née Singer). He worked as a ten dollar per match boxer and graduated from South Philadelphia High School in 1930 before entering the University of Pennsylvania to study English and Philosophy.

Career

Nash published two books on philosophy, The Athenian Spirit and The Wounds of Sparta. Nash wrote his first play, Parting at Imsdorf, in 1940, which won the Maxwell Anderson Verse Drama Award. He next penned the Shakespearian-themed comedy The Second Best Bed, produced on Broadway in 1946. The highly acclaimed drama led to him writing more shows, including The Young and Fair (1948), See the Jaguar (1952, for which he won the International Drama Award in Cannes and the Prague Award), and The Rainmaker (1954, starring Geraldine Page; revived on Broadway in 1999). The Rainmaker, a full-length play, had originally been a Philco Television Playhouse one-act 1953 television production. It was translated to over 40 languages and made into a 1956 Hollywood film starring Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn, and a 1982 full-length TV production. The play was made into a Broadway musical, 110 in the Shade.

Richard Nash

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Richard Nash (MP died 1395)

Richard Nash or Ash (died 1394/1395), of Hereford, was an English politician.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Hereford in January 1377, 1379, January 1380, 1381 and October 1383 and for Herefordshire November 1384, February 1388 and November 1390.

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Richard Nash (Australian politician)

Richard Henry Nash (2 July 1890 – 12 December 1951) was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, Victoria, he moved to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia as a child. After receiving a primary education, he became a tramway worker, and an official with the Tramway Workers' Union. He was Secretary of the Perth Trades Hall Council 1939-1943. In 1943, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator for Western Australia. He remained in the Senate until his death in 1951, necessitating the appointment of Joe Cooke to fill the vacancy.

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