Augustus Thomas

Augustus Thomas (born Jan. 8, 1857, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.—died Aug. 12, 1934, near Nyack, N.Y.) was a playwright important in the development of U.S. theatre for his consistent use of native material; he wrote or adapted nearly 70 plays. Primarily self-educated, Thomas worked in railway freight offices for several years and then was a newspaper writer and illustrator in Kansas City, Mo., before the success of A Man of the World (1883) and The...