Creator Bio
Herb Gardner
1934–2003
Herb Gardner was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was a playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and cartoonist. Many of his comedies, with their eccentric characters, have been adapted into feature films. Gardner received the Tony Award for Best Play, the Writers Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award, and nominations for Academy and Emmy Awards.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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A Thousand Clowns
Murray:People fall into two distinct categories. Miss Markowitz; people who like delicatessen, and people who don’t like delicatessen. A man who is not touched by the earthy lyricism of hot…
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I’m Not Rappaport
Nat:Look at you! Look what you’ve become! Queen of the Condominiums, peasant skirts for two hundred dollars, betrayer of your namesake—Clara:Goddamn name—Nat:Clara Lemlich, who stood for something—Cla…