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On April 20, 2023, Marylyn Dintenfass was inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts' (NYFA) Hall of Fame. Watch Dintenfass talk about her work, what...
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In 1910 promising film producer Mark Dintenfass made the trek to a sleepy little village across the Hudson River called Fort Lee, New Jersey. With a mixture of amazingly interchangeable scenery close to New York City’s Broadway talent, it was the perfect location to shoot pictures.
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Mark M. Dintenfass was born on 17 April 1872 in Tarnów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Tarnów, Malopolskie, Poland]. Mark M. was a producer, known for Between Two Husbands (1922), My Four Years in Germany (1918) and Love That Never Fails (1912).
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Mark Dintenfass was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Columbia University, from which he also received an M.A. in Drama. With his wife, Phyllis, he joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to Ethiopia, where he taught English at Haile Selassie University in Addis Ababa.
His novels are known for their New York settings. His 1982 work Old World, New World was a literary Guild Alternate Selection and came within a few thousand copies of creeping on to the New York Times best-seller list.
Aug 14, 2008 · In 1968 when Lilia and I went from Sofia via Dublin to join my parents in their exile in Menasha, Wisconsin I came to learn the name of a young writer who had just taken up teaching at Lawrence University (then College) in nearby Appleton, Mark Dintenfass.
Mark Dintenfass, American writer, English educator. Recipient Distinguished Achievement award Wisconsin Library. Association, 1987; named Notable Wisconsin Writer, Wisconsin Library.
