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Adele Gutman Nathan
Adele Gutman Nathan (September 15, 1889 - July 24, 1986) was an American writer. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, she graduated from (Baltimore) Girls Latin High School and Goucher Col...view moreAdele Gutman Nathan (September 15, 1889 - July 24, 1986) was an American writer. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, she graduated from (Baltimore) Girls Latin High School and Goucher College (1910) and did graduate work at Johns Hopkins University (M.A.), Columbia University and the Peabody Institute.
Her long-standing interest in theater began in college and continued to her death. She helped found the Vagabond Players (1916) in Baltimore, was involved in children’s theater with the Little Lyric Theatre (Baltimore) in the 1920s, directed at the Cellar Players of the Hudson Guild (1920s to 1940s) and the Cherry Lane Theatre (New York City), and headed the Federal Theatre Project in New Jersey (1937). She later directed short non-fiction subjects for Paramount and Grand National Pictures (mid-1930s) and was chief scriptwriter at the U.S. Department of Education (1941).
She wrote for newspapers, corresponding from Europe in the mid-1920s about cultural affairs for the Baltimore Daily Gazette and writing in the 1950s for the Cripple Creek Gold Rush (Colorado). She was feature editor for St. Nicholas Magazine (1943-1944) and contributed to Vogue, the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine, and the Encyclopedia Americana. She also wrote non-fiction children’s books, many of which were translated into other languages.
Her greatest successes came as a writer and producer of historical pageants, staging commemorative events for cities, corporations, and groups, including the centenaries of the B&O Railroad (1927) and of International Harvester (1929), the 1933 and 1939 World’s Fairs, and the Hundredth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (1963). In 1971, she wrote How to Plan and Conduct a Bicentennial Celebration for the American Bicentennial.
She received the Freedom Foundation Award (1953), the Vagabond Players Citation (1971) and the Goucher College Alumnae Award.view less