Background
Nathan, Robert was born on January 2, 1894 in New York City. Son of Harold and Sarah (Gruntal) Nathan.
Nathan, Robert was born on January 2, 1894 in New York City. Son of Harold and Sarah (Gruntal) Nathan.
Educated private schools, United States, Switzerland, also Harvard.
Lecturer, New York University School Journalism, 1924-1925. Member of advisory council writers War Board. Chancellor Academy American Poets.
Honorary fellow Academy American Poets. Charter member P.E.N. (president). Member National Institute Arts and Letters (vice president).
A.S.C.A.P., Dramatists Guild, Screenwriters Guild, Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Editorial board Huntington Hartford Foundation Author: Peter Kindred, 1919. Autumn, 1921
Youth Grows Old, 1922. The Puppet Master, 1923.Jonah, 1925
The Fiddler in Barly, 1926. The Woodcutter’s House, 1927. The Bishops Wife, 1928.A Cedar Box, 1929
There is Another Heaven, 1929. The Orchid, 1931
One More Spring, 1933. Road of Ages, 1935
Selected Poems, 1935.Music at Evening (play), 1935. Winter in April, 1937. The Barley Field, 1938.Journey of Tapiola, 1938. Portrait of Jennie. 1940. A Winter Tide, 1940
They Went on Together, 1941.Tapiola’s Regiment, 1941. The Seagull Cry, 1942. Journal for Josephine, 1943.But Gently Day, 1943. Morning in Iowa, 1944. The Darkening Meadows (poetry), 1944.Mr. Whittle and the Morning Star, 1947. A Family Piece (play) 1947. Long After Summer, 1948.River Journey, 1949
Messer Marco Polo (dramatization). The Innocent Eve, 1951. Jezebel’s Husband (play), 1941.The Sleeping Beauty (play), 1950. Susan and the Stranger (play), 1954. Sir Henry, 1955
The Rancho of the Little Loves, 1956.So Love Returns, 1958. The Snowflake and the Starfish, 1959. The Weans, 1960
The Color of Evening, 1960.The Wilderness Stone, 1961. A Star in the Wind, 1962. The Married Man (poems), 1962.The Devil with Love, 1963. The Fair, 1964
The Mallot Diaries, 1965. Juliet in Mantua (play), 1966.Stonecliff, 1967
Tappy, 1968. Mia, 1970
The Elixir, 1971. The Summer Meadows, 1973.Evening Song (poems), 1973. The Megas Factor, 1975. Composer violin sonata, also songs.Illustrator of Tina Mina Tales.
Member of advisory council writers War Board. Member National Institute Arts and Letters (vice president). A.S.C.A.P., Dramatists Guild, Screenwriters Guild, Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Clubs: Town Hall, Fencers, Coffee House, Woods Hole Yacht.
Married Dorothy Michaels, 1915 (divorced 1922).; married second, Nancy Wilson, 1930 (divorced 1936).; married 3d, Lucy Lee Hall Skelding, 1936 (division 1939). Married 4th, Janet McMillen Bingham, 1940 (division).Married 5th, Clara May Blum Burns, 1951. Married 6th, Shirley Kneeland White, 1955 (deceased 1969). Married 7th, Anna Lee (Joan Boniface Winnifrith), 1970.