MY OWN BAKYARD

by Arthur Cavanauth ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 12, 1961

My Own Backyard, playwright Arthur Cavanaugh's moving and honest ""apologia"", is indeed a welcome change from today's vogue for the more sensational autobiographical exposes. His is the story of a Catholic who had spent the first part of his life in determined flight from his religion, a Catholic converted belatedly to his own faith. It is also the story of a sensitive introvert who for years looked longingly ""at"" life unable to enter ""into"" it. While attending college in the 1940's the author rejected completely the Catholicism he equated with his own unhappiness. During a wartime tour with the USO overseas he embarked on his play-writing career which eventually resulted years later in a series of well received, critically acclaimed dramas for TV. His chance meeting with two women -- the warm and understanding Jo Carroll, whom he married, and Phylis Anderson, head of the Theater Guild's play department and discoverer of new talent for a New York agency, gave him the love, trust and absence of fear which brought his life and work into focus and made it meaningful and complete. Mr. Cavanagugh is presently completing a play which he hopes is Broadway-bound. Many readers of My Own Backyard will wait eagerly for its premiere.

Pub Date: Jan. 12, 1961

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 1, 1961

Categories: NONFICTION