	Ohioana Authors list

The Ohio Connection

Jerome Lawrence

Born in Cleveland, July 14, 1915
Graduated from Ohio State University (1937)
Writer, director and announcer, WOSU radio
Reporter and editor, Wilmington News-Journal and New Lexington Daily News

Robert E. Lee

Born in Elyria, October 15, 1918
Majored in astronomy at Ohio Wesleyan University (1935-37)
Observer and technician, Perkins Observatory, Delaware, Ohio
Part-time announcer, WHKC, WOSU and WCOL radio
Director, WHK–WCLE radio, Cleveland (1937-38)
Attended Case Western Reserve University (1938)

The pair's popular play, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, premiered in 1970 at The Ohio State University as the Centennial Play for the American Playwrights Theatre.

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The mission of the Ohioana Library Association is to recognize and encourage the creative accomplishments of Ohioans, to preserve and to expand a permanent archive of books, sheet music, manuscripts, and other materials by Ohioans and about Ohio, and to disseminate information about the work of Ohio writers, musicians, and other artists to researchers, schools, and the general public.