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16003
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Paul Green's career as an author and playwright flourished in the 1930s. During this period, he penned THIS BODY THE EARTH, novel, and was involved with HYMN TO THE RISING SUN, JOHNNY JOHNSON, and THE LOST COLONY. His novel, THIS BODY THE EARTH, focuses on people of the Atlantic coastal plain stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to Florida.
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18612
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North Carolina playwright and screenwriter Paul Green contributed to dozens of Hollywood scripts between the early 1930s and 1960, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1927 play, In Abraham's Bosom, and famously wrote the outdoor history play, The Lost Colony, which has run every summer in Manteo since 1937. Green, an advocate for liberal social reforms in the South, used both his plays and film scripts to voice his social concerns.
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18959
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North Carolina author and playwright Paul Green experienced a diverse and successful career as a writer, screenwriter, and playwright. Most famous for The Lost Colony, which depicted early colonists in North Carolina, Green was able to parley his success into the support of progressive social causes in the South.
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