John Luther Long (January 1, 1861 – October 31, 1927) was an American lawyer and writer best known for his short story " Madame Butterfly", which was based on the recollections of his sister, Jennie Correll, who had been to Japan with her husband—a Methodist missionary. [1]
Biography
Born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, Long had been admitted to the bar in Philadelphia on October 29, 1881, and become a practicing lawyer. On January 17, 1882, he married Mary Jane Sprenkle. He died at age 66 on October 31, 1927, having spent the last two months of his life at a sanatorium in Clifton Springs, New York. The obituary in The New York Times of November 1, 1927, quoted his own interpretation of himself as "a sentimentalist, and a feminist and proud of it". [2]
With David Belasco he wrote the four act play Adrea which starred Mrs. Leslie Carter and which ran for 123 performances at the first Belasco Theatre. [3] His one act play Dolce was staged at the Manhattan Theater on April 24, 1906, starring Minnie Maddern Fiske. [4]
Legacy
The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center has an extensive collection of his papers including correspondence and literary projects. [1]
Plays
- Andrea, written with David Belasco
- Dolce, a one act play
- Kassa [5]
- The Darling of the Gods and Andrea
References
- ^ a b John Luther Long: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center
- ^ " John Luther Long, Playwright, Dead", New York Times. November 1, 1927.
- ^ Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hishak, The Oxford Companion to American Theatre, Oxford University Press (2004) - Google Books pg. 12
- ^ " Mrs. Fiske Charming in Charming Short Play", New York Times. April 25, 1906
- ^ "MRS. CARTER AS "KASSA."; Appears in John Luther Long's Tragic Play in Washington". The New York Times. January 8, 1909. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
External links
- John Luther Long Papers at the Harry Ransom Center
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Works by or about
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Wikisource - Works by John Luther Long at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about John Luther Long at Internet Archive
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Works by John Luther Long at
LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Madame Butterfly, The Century Volume 55 Issue 3 (Jan 1898) pp. 374–393
- Madame Butterfly 1903 Grosset and Dunlap "Japanese Edition" with photogravure illustrations by C. Yarnall Abbott (1870–1938)
- David Belasco's Play Madame Butterfly, A Tragedy of Japan (from "Six Plays" Little, Brown 1928)
- John Luther Long, American Studies at The University of Virginia.
