Owen Davis
Owen Davis was born on January 29, 1874, in Portland, Maine. After learning the art of writing plays at Harvard University, he became one of the most successful melodramatic playwrights at the turn of... Read more
Owen Davis was born on January 29, 1874, in Portland, Maine. After learning the art of writing plays at Harvard University, he became one of the most successful melodramatic playwrights at the turn of the twentieth century. Davis abruptly stopped writing and, in 1914, wrote an essay titled “Why I Quit Writing Melodrama,” published in "American Magazine." Later he returned to the theater, having abandoned his Harvard training, and wrote realistic plays such as ICEBOUND, which received the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. On October 14, 1956, he died in New York City.