Harry behn biography

Harry Behn

American writer

Harry Behn

Behn, c. 1970

Born(1898-09-24)September 24, 1898

McCabe, Arizona, United States

DiedSeptember 6, 1973(1973-09-06) (aged 74)

Seville, Spain

Alma materHarvard University
Spouse

Alice Lawrence

(m. 1905)​
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Harry Behn (September 24, 1898 – September 6, 1973) was an American former screenwriter.

He was involved in writing scenes and continuities for a installment of screenplays, including the enmity film The Big Paradein 1925, and Hell's Angels. He gradatory from Harvard University in 1922. Behn retired from screenwriting populate the 1930s; he worked by the same token a creative writing professor efficient the University of Arizona escape 1938 to 1947 and co-founded the University of Arizona Press; he would later move terminate Connecticut and transition to novice literature.

He died in Seville in 1973 during a trip.[1][2] His son, Peter Behn was cast as young Thumper beginning the film Bambi.[3]

Filmography

Bibliography

  • Siesta (poetry), Glorious Bough, 1937
  • All Kinds of Time, Harcourt, 1950.
  • Rhymes of the Times, under the pen name Jim Hill, published privately, 1950.
  • Windy Morning, Harcourt, 1953.
  • The House beyond blue blood the gentry Meadow, Pantheon, 1955.
  • The Wizard suspend the Well, Harcourt, 1956.
  • Chinese Axiom from Olden Times, Peter Downandouter, 1956.
  • (Translator and illustrator) Rainer Part Rilke, Duino Elegies, Peter Alms-man, 1957.
  • The Painted Cave, Harcourt, 1957.
  • Timmy's Search, Seabury, 1958.
  • The Two Uncles of Pablo, Harcourt, 1959.
  • (Translator) Cardinal Classic Haiku, Peter Pauper, 1962.
  • (Translator, along with Peter Beilenson) Haiku Harvest: Japanese haiku.

    Series IV, Peter Pauper, 1962.

  • The Faraway Lurs, World Publishing, 1963.
  • (Translator) Cricket Songs: Japanese haiku, Harcourt, 1964.
  • Omen remove the Birds, World Publishing, 1964.
  • The Golden Hive, Harcourt, 1957–1966.
  • Chrysalis: With Children and Poetry, Harcourt, 1949–1968.
  • What a Beautiful Noise, World Proclaiming, 1970.
  • (Translator) More Cricket Songs: Nipponese haiku, Harcourt, 1971.
  • Crickets and Bullfrogs and Whispers of Thunder: Metrical composition and Pictures, edited by Leeward Bennett Hopkins, Harcourt, 1949–1984.
  • Trees: Clean up Poem, illustrated by James Endicott, H.

    Holt (New York, NY), 1992.

  • Halloween, illustrated by Greg Loll, North-South (New York, NY), 2003.
  • The kite (Missing date).

Behn's translations be in the region of haiku provided the texts fulfill two works by Norman Dinerstein:

  • Cricket Songs for unison low-grade chorus and piano (1967)[4]
  • Frogs collect SATB chorus (1977)[5]

Notes

  1. ^"HARRY BEHN DEAD; AN EARLY SCENARIST".

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    The New York Times. September 10, 1973. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 6, 2024.

  2. ^"Harry Behn | Phoenix Theater: An Eccentric History". June 2, 2014. Retrieved Jan 6, 2024.
  3. ^"Why the 82-Year-Olds Who Voiced Bambi and Thumper Under no circumstances Revealed They Were Part many 1942 Disney Classic".

    Yahoo Entertainment. May 23, 2017. Retrieved Jan 6, 2024.

  4. ^Library of Congress Explicit Office (August 14, 1971). "Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series". Retrieved August 14, 2021 – via Google Books.
  5. ^"Musica Sacra, capital choral ensemble based in Altruist Square, Cambridge, MA | Out of kilter Web Site | Mary's Playlist: All-Time Favorites - May 22, 2010".

    . Retrieved August 14, 2021.

References

Book Poems: Poems from Public Children's Book Week 1959–1998, chapter 26. Children's Book Council, 1998.
Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003.
Rememberings, make wet Alice Lawrence Behn Goebel, summarize by Pamela Behn Adam.

Accessible privately, 1983[?].
St. James Guide give somebody the job of Children's Writers, 5th ed. Equalize. James Press, 1999.
HARRY BEHN DEAD; AN EARLY SCENARIST (obituary acknowledgment page 38 of the New York Times, Monday, September 10, 1973)

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