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Sheldon, Edward
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Sheldon, Edward (Brewster) (1886–1946) playwright; born in Chicago. His output is divided between social realism, such as The Nigger (1909), which confronts issues of racial purity, and love stories, such as Romance (1913), his biggest success.


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White New Yorkers discovered that Harlem cabarets were the "in" places to go by means of a limited number of sources, notably the trend-setting Vanity Fair magazine, the vexingly titled 1926 book Nigger Heaven, by Carl Van Vechten, which went through fourteen printings in one year, and the musical Lulu Belle, written by Charles MacArthur and Edward Sheldon, which ran on Broadway for 461 performances in the 1920's.
 
 
 
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