Young, Stark

Young, Stark (1881–1963) drama critic, novelist; born in Como, Miss. Giving up his career as an academic—at the University of Texas: Austin (1903–14) and Amherst College (1915–21)—he turned to writing as an editor of New Republic (1922–47) and Theatre Arts Magazine (1922–48). He also contributed theater criticism to the New York Times. He was regarded as one of the first serious American critics of current theater; the best work was collected in Immortal Shadows (1949). His own plays had little success but one of his novels, So Red the Rose (1934), was popular and was made into a movie (1935).