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          Samuel Nathaniel Behrman was an American playwright, screenwriter, biographer, and longtime writer for The New Yorker....

          Playwright and author S. N. (Samuel Nathaniel) Behrman was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1893.

          The prolific playwright S. N. Behrman was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, into dire poverty; his entry into professional theatre was rapid.

        1. The prolific playwright S. N. Behrman was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, into dire poverty; his entry into professional theatre was rapid.
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        3. Samuel Nathaniel Behrman was an American playwright, screenwriter, biographer, and longtime writer for The New Yorker.
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          6. He was the youngest of three sons raised by Lithuanian immigrants in the heart of Worcester's Jewish community on Providence Street. An older sister was killed in a streetcar accident during her childhood.

          The family lived in a tenement which Behrman later mused was "heavily populated with angels," their imaginary presence invoked by the Hebrew prayers of his father, a devout, scholarly man who spent long hours studying the Talmud.

          As a boy, the precocious Behrman was befriended and mentored by Daniel Asher, a young man six or seven years his senior whom he met through one of his brothers. Under Asher's tutelage, Behrman became a prize-winning leader of his high school debate team.

          Asher introduced his protégé to the theat