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The Cherokee Night and Other Plays (Paperback, New)
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The Cherokee Night and Other Plays (Paperback, New)
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Special Limited Edition leatherbound hardcoverThe author of
numerous plays and film scripts, including Green Grow the Lilacs,
later made into the hit musical Oklahoma!, Lynn Riggs (18991954) is
recognized as one of America's most engaging dramatists and was the
only active American Indian dramatist during the first half of the
twentieth century. An elegant leatherbound collector's edition, The
Cherokee Night and Other Plays, features his never-before-published
play Out of Dust, as well as The Cherokee Night and Green Grow the
Lilacs. A mixed-blood Cherokee, Riggs wrote about the people,
places, and events of the Oklahoma he knew so well. A cattle
rancher's son, Riggs was born in the Verdigris Valley south of
Claremore in Indian Territory. He first gained recognition as a
poet in the early 1920s while attending the University of Oklahoma
and later moved to New York, where he worked on and around
Broadway. In 1927 Riggs was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, and
while in France on that fellowship, he began writing Green Grow the
Lilacs, which Rodgers and Hammerstein made into the Broadway
musical Oklahoma! in 1943. By the end of his life, Riggs had
written some thirty plays and scripts for fourteen films produced
between 1930 and 1955. In their 1939 Handbook of Oklahoma Writers,
Mary Hays Marable and Elaine Boylan observe: ""Lynn Riggs hitched
his wagon to Pegasus and rode into the theatre with an output of
poetic and regional plays that has brought him outstanding
success.""
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