Young, Stark (1881–1963)

US drama critic and novelist. He was regarded as one of the first serious US critics of current theatre, his best work collected in Immortal Shadows (1949). Born in Como, Mississippi, he gave up his career as an academic at the University of Texas: Austin (1903–14) and Amherst College (1915–21) and turned to writing as an editor of New Republic (1922–47) and Theatre Arts Magazine (1922–48). He also contributed theatre criticism to the New York Times. His own plays had little success but one of his novels, So Red the Rose (1934), was popular and was made into a movie.