A Southern Life

This exceptional collection provides new insight into the life of North Carolina writer and activist Paul Green (1894–1981), the first southern playwright to attract international acclaim for his socially conscious dramas. Green, who taught philosophy and drama at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927 for In Abraham’s Bosom , an authentic drama of black life. Among his other Broadway productions were Native Son and Johnny Johnson . From the 1930s onward,