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02690aam a2200373 i 4500 001 91EE65C6B6DB11E2AF0A76A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130507010107 008 121116s2013 nyua b 001 0beng d 010 $a 2012040842 020 $a 1137270624 (alk. paper) 020 $a 9781137270627 (alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)792880327 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BWX $d PUL $d MUU $d VRC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ny 050 00 $a PN149.9.W68 $b B38 2013 100 1 $a Barranger, Milly S. 245 10 $a Audrey Wood and the playwrights / $c Milly S. Barranger. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2013. 300 $a xiv, 220 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-201) and index. 505 0 $a Genesis of an agent 1905-1940. Stagestruck -- Starting out -- A room of their own -- The fearful path : 1941-1970. The bitch goddess -- Dancing on eggs -- Personal monsters -- Darkness in the heartland -- Iron butterflies -- An accidental career -- Irish fictions -- Entrances and exits 1971-1986. Out-of-the-ordinary -- Guardian angel. 520 $a "From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, New York-based literary agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Audrey Wood and the Playwrights illuminates the gifts and strategies of the tenacious woman at the Liebling-Wood Agency who melded playwrights with producers, directors, and leading actors and shaped the American theatre and film industry during the mid-twentieth century. Wood's story is told here through her interactions with her clients, now household names, whose works she steered through periods of triumph and failure. In an era when women, with the exception of actresses, were rare in the theatre business, she was known as the go-to agent for success in the commercial theater. Dubbed a guardian agent, her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest mid-century playwrights to prominence and altered stage history"--Publisher's website. 600 10 $a Wood, Audrey, $d 1905- 650 0 $a Literary agents $z New York $z New York $v Biography. 650 0 $a Theatrical agents $z New York $z New York $v Biography. 830 0 $a Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171221055534.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826064638.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=91EE65C6B6DB11E2AF0A76A3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search