Howard Miles Teichmann (January 22, 1916 - July 7, 1987) was a Broadway playwright and biographer.
Teichman was born in Chicago in 1916 and graduated from the
University of Wisconsin in 1938. He first went to work for
Orson Welles on his
The Mercury Theatre on the Air. He worked in the
United States Office of War Information during
World War II and returned to writing for radio after the war. For television, he was a co-writer for ''
The Ford 50th Anniversary Show'' (1953).
Teichmann wrote the 1953 hit play ''The Solid Gold Cadillac'' with
George S. Kaufman
George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889June 2, 1961) was an American playwright, theater director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. In addition to comedies and political satire, he wrote several musicals for the Marx Brothers and others. ...
, which was later
adapted to film. Other plays he wrote included ''Miss Lonelyhearts'' (1957) (adapted from the 1933
novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...
) and ''
The Girls in 509'' (1958). He also wrote a number of biographies, including of Kaufman (1972),
Alexander Woollcott (1976),
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1979), and
Henry Fonda (1981). He was also a professor at
Barnard College.
[(9 July 1987)]
Howards M. Teichmann, Playwright, Dies at 71
'' The New York Times'', p. A25[(9 July 1987)]
Playwright Dies of Lou Gehrig's Disease
'' Associated Press''[Rotbert, Mitchell (22 January 1980)]
Literary Life of Barnard Prof
''Columbia Daily Spectator
The ''Columbia Daily Spectator'' (known colloquially as the ''Spec'') is the student newspaper of Columbia University. Founded in 1877, it is the oldest continuously operating college news daily in the nation after ''The Harvard Crimson'', and has ...
''[(June 1948)]
A New Course
''Barnard College Alumnae Magazine'', p. 9-10
Teichmann died of
ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. ALS is the most com ...
on July 7, 1987, survived by his wife, daughter, and two grandchildren.
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1916 births
1987 deaths
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
20th-century American biographers
Barnard College faculty