Langdon Mitchell

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Langdon Mitchell (17 February 1862, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 21 October 1935, Philadelphia) was an American playwright.

[edit] Plays

• In a Season
• Becky Sharp, (1899), an adaptation of Thackeray's Vanity Fair
• The Krutzer Sonata, an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata
• The New York Idea, (1906), a social satire on marriage and divorce

[edit] Further reading

• The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 4. James T. White & Co., 1891.
• "L. E. Mitchell, 73, Playwright, Dies", The New York Times, October 22, 1935, p. 22.
• Who Was Who in America. Volume 1, 1897–1942. A.N. Marquis Co., 1943. (See also the Corrigenda on p. x)
• Contemporary Authors. Volume 120. Gale Research, 1987.
• The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Sixth edition. Oxford University Press, 1995.