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October 14, 1956 (82 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Aquarius
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Celebrities born on January 29
Born in 1874
Aquarius named Owen
Playwrights from Maine
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First name Owen
Owen Davis
Owen Gould Davis is an American playwright known for writing more than 200 plays and producing most of them. In 1919, he became the first elected president of the American Theater Association. He received the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for theater for his play Icebound. His plays and scripts include works for radio and cinema. Before World War I, he wrote fierce sketches of New York's high life and vile life for the Police Gazette under the name Ike Swift. Many of them have been installed in Tenderloin, in Manhattan. Davis also wrote under a number of other pseudonyms, including Martin Hurley, Arthur J. Lamb, Walter Lawrence, John Oliver and Robert Wayne.
BornOwen Gould Davis, January 29, 1874, Portland, Maine, U.S.
DiedOctober 14, 1956, New York City, New York, U.S.
Pen nameJohn Oliver
OccupationPlaywright, screenwriter
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Drama (1923)
SpouseElizabeth Breyer
ChildrenOwen Davis Jr, Donald Davis

About Owen Davis

Playwright Owen Davis was born in Maine, United States on January 29, 1874. He dies at the age of 82, on October 14, 1956.

American playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and wrote hundreds of plays and scripts for radio, theatre, and film.

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Owen Davis before becoming famous

Owen Davis was born in the Zodiac sign Aquarius (The Water-Bearer), and 1874 is also the year of Dog (狗) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He was born and reared in the city of Bangor, Maine.

Achievement of Owen Davis

For his play Icebound, he received the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1923.

Owen Davis's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Donald, his son, is also a playwright.

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He was the first person to win the Pulitzer Prize, fifteen years before Playwright Thornton Wilder.

Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975) (Playwright)
Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)

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Owen Davis Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Owen Davis updated on March 17 2023.