John Booth

Bio

(1919-2008) Author. John Booth was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He was the author of theater books.

Full Name

John Booth

Locations

Westchester

Author's Timeline

1919

John Erlanger was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York, in 1919. As a teenager, he assumed his stepfather's last name, Booth.

1963

Actors Talk About Acting
Random House.

Nonfiction written with Lewis B. Funke.

1969

John Booth worked for The New York Times and, from 1969 until 1984, he worked at the Twentieth Century Fund.

1990

John Booth taught writing to inmates at Sing Sing in Ossining, New York, from 1990 until 2002.

1991

The Critic, Power, and the Performing Arts
Columbia University Press.

Nonfiction.

2008

John Booth died in Rowe, New Mexico, in 2008.

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