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1 | In 1928 he was one five playwrights asked to conduct a new writing course at the University of Pennsylvania. The others were, Jesse Lynch Williams, Lord Dunsany, Gilbert Emery and Rachel Crothers. |
2 | Remembered for dramatizing "Vanity Fair" , under the title "Becky Sharp" and "Pendennis", works by William Makepeace Thackeray. |
3 | Admitted to the New York bar in 1886. |
4 | Took classes at Harvard and Columbia Law School. |
5 | Attended schools in Dresden and Paris. |
6 | Brother of noted neurologist, John K. Mitchell. |
7 | Son of prominent physician and author, Silas Weir Mitchell. |
8 | Playwright, Poet Author and Lecturer. |