Background
Nathan, George Jean was born on February 14, 1882 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. Son of Charles and Ella Nathan.
Nathan, George Jean was born on February 14, 1882 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. Son of Charles and Ella Nathan.
Bachelor of Arts, Cornell, 1904. University of Bologna, Italy, 1905. Doctor of Humane Letters, Indiana University, 1953, Doctor of Laws, 1953.
Editorial staff New York Herald, 1905-1906. Dramatic critic and associate editor Bohemian Magazine, and Outing, 1906-1908. Writer on theatre, Harper’s Weekly, 1908-1910, Associated Sunday Magazines, 1909-1914.
Dramatic critic Smart Secretariat, 1908-1923.
Dramatic critic national syndicate of newspapers, 1912-1929. Dramatic critic, Puck (with James Huneker), 1915-1916.
Dramatic critic, Judge, 1922-1935, dramatic critic, Life, 1935-1936. Editor of The Smart Secretariat Magazine (with H. L. Mencken), 1914-1923.
Founder and editor The American Mercury (with H. L. Mencken), 1924-1925, contributing editor, 1925-1930 and dramatic critic, 1924-1930.
Dramatic editor The New Freeman, 1930. Consultant editor Arts and Decoration, 1924-1934. Editorial contributor London Daily Express and guest-critic, 1930.
Dramatic critic, Vanity Fair, 1930-1935.
Founder and editor American Spectator (with Theodore Dreiser, Eugene O’Neill, James Branch Cabell and Ernest Boyd), 1932. Dramatic critic Saturday Review of Literature, 1937, Esquire, 1935-1946.
Scribner’s, 1937-1938. Newsweek, 1937-1940; American Mercury, 1940-1951, Liberty magazine, 1940-1942, New York Journal-American and King Features national syndicate, since 1943.
Dramatic critic Theatre Arts 1952-1953.
Contributor to Encyclopedia Britannica and to Britannica Book of the Year. Editor The Theatre of Today dramatic library. Honorary member London Critics Circle.
American member Maximilian Society (London, England).
President New York Drama Critics Circle, 1937-1939. Author: The Eternal Mystery, 1913.
Europe after 8:15 (with H. L. Mencken), 1914. Another Book on the Theatre, 1916.
Bottoms Up, 1917; Mr.
George Jean Nathan Presents, 1917. A Book Without a Title, 1918. The Popular Theatre, 1918.
Comedians All, 1919.
Heliogabalus (with H. L. Mencken), 1920. The American Credo (with same), 1920. The Theatre, The Drama, The Girls, 1921.
The Critic and the Drama, 1922.
The World in Falseface, 1923. Materia Critica, 1924.
The Autobiography of an Attitude, 1925. The House of Satan, 1926.
The New American Credo, 1927.
Land of the Pilgrims’ Pride, 1927. Art of the Night, 1928. Monks Are Monks, 1929.
Testament of a Critic, 1931.
The Intimate Notebooks of George Jean Nathan, 1932. Since Ibsen, 1933; Passing Judgments, 1934.
The Theatre of the Moment, 1936. The Avon Flows, 1937.
The Morning After the First Night, 1938.
Encyclopedia of the Theatre, 1940. The Bachelor Life, 1941. The Entertainment of a Nation, 1942.
Beware of Parents, 1943.
The Theatre Book of the Year, 1943-1951. The World of George Jean Nathan, 1952.
The Theatre in The Fifties, 1953. Contributor to leading American and European magazines
Address: 44 West. 44th Saint, New York City.
Member London Critics Circle. Member Maximilian Society (London, England).
Married Julie Haydon, 1955.