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March 17, 1994, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of North Carolina's greatest playwright, Paul Green. Born on a farm in Harnett County, Green wrote such dramas as THE LOST COLONY and the Pulitzer Prize-winning IN ABRAHAM'S BOSOM.
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21112
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Pulitzer prize-winner Paul Green is best known for his nearly 100 plays for stage and screen, most notably The Lost Colony about the lost English colony on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. While not what he is mostly known for, Green was also a documentarian who collected mounds of data on the life history of the people of the Cape Fear Valley and documented language usage as early as World War I. Green's estate posthumously published Paul Green's Wordbook, a two-volume, 1,245 page tome which included decades of his research on the Cape Fear Valley.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p47-55, por
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32606
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Since 1937, Roanoke Island has been home to “The Lost Colony,” the late Paul Green’s outdoor drama about Sir Walter Raleigh’s abortive efforts to establish a permanent English colony in America. Green called the play a “symphonic drama” and wrote fifteen others, six of which are still produced annually. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright died May 4 at age 87.
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35878
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Roanoke was getting ready for its quadricentennial celebration. Part of the preparation: building a replica of the ship that brought the colonists ashore and Lost Colony Center near Waterside Theatre. As for the celebration, flora and fauna paintings of disappeared colonist John White was being remembered as much as the disappearance itself.
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6027
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Modern outdoor drama began in Manteo with the first performance of The Lost Colony. In this NEW EAST interview playwright Paul Green reminisces about his most famous creation.
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16425
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Paul Green, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was born on a farm near Lillington, North Carolina. A graduate of Buie's Creek Academy and the University of North Carolina, Green's 1927 play In Abraham's Bosom won the Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote some twenty-five to thirty movies and numerous other plays.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 20 Issue 2, May 1972,
p75
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10565
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The North Carolina Award is the highest honor the state can bestow on its citizens. Suggested by Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville and instituted by the 1961 General Assembly, the award recognizes 'notable accomplishments by North Carolina citizens in the fields of scholarship, research, the fine arts, and public leadership.' Frank P. Graham (public service), Paul Green (literature), Gerald W. Johnson (author), Hunter Johnson (fine arts), and Frederick A. Wolf received the award in 1965.
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15205
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Paul Green, the noted playwright and author of Chapel, is currently writing for the movies in Hollywood. He discusses the Little Cinema Movement, which is the creation of movies in smaller venues, such as the University of North Carolina, where expenses are less. Harvard University already has such a program. He also gives his impressions about some of the present-day stars.
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