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Born Arthur Levine, Laurents was the son of middle-class Jewish parents, his father a lawyer and his mother a schoolteacher, who gave up her career when she married. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was born and raised in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn , a borough of New York City , New York, the elder of two children, and attended Erasmus Hall High School .
- Music Division, Library of Congress
- Arthur Laurents Papers, circa 1900-2011
May 6, 2011 · His father, the son of Orthodox Jews, was a lawyer, and his mother, also Jewish, but raised Atheist, was, in her son's words, an energetic blonde "with very good legs."
May 5, 2011 · Born Arthur Levine, Laurents was the son of middle-class Jewish parents, his father a lawyer and his mother a schoolteacher, who gave up her career when she married.
Featuring two state-of-the-art theatres—The Arthur Laurents Theater with 253 seats and The Elizabeth Ross Johnson Theater which seats 465—and myriad amenities, the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center marks a new era in the esteemed history of George Street Playhouse.
The son of a lawyer, Laurents was born Arthur Levine in Brooklyn in 1918, and educated at Cornell University where, as a summary of his autobiography put it, he "learned to write plays, learned...
- Tom Vallance
May 7, 2011 · The son of a lawyer father and teacher mother, Laurents was born Arthur Levine, but changed his Jewish surname to find work in a then ethnic-conscious America.
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May 5, 2011 · Arthur Levine grew up in Flatbush, the son of a commuting Manhattan lawyer; his mother had been a schoolteacher before her marriage. His father had lapsed from his family’s Orthodox faith, and Arthur’s Bar Mitzvah marked the end of any involvement with organized Judaism.
