Martin Flavin

For the Irish Member of Parliament, see Martin Flavin (politician).

Martin Archer Flavin (November 2, 1883 – December 27, 1967) was an American playwright and novelist.

He was awarded the 1944 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Journey in the Dark.

Works

Children of the Moon (1923, produced on Broadway 1923)
Emergency Case (1923)
Caleb Stone's Death Watch (1923, produced on Broadway 1924)
Achilles Had a Heel (1924, produced on Broadway 1935)
Lady of the Rose (1925, produced on Broadway 1925)
Service for Two (1926, produced on Broadway 1926)
Brains (1926, produced on Broadway 1926)
The Criminal Code (1929, produced on Broadway 1929), the basis for several motion pictures: the 1931 film of the same name, the 1931 Spanish-language film El Código penal, Penitentiary (1938), and Convicted (1950)
Broken Dishes (1929, produced on Broadway 1930), the basis for the 1931 motion picture Too Young to Marry, the 1936 motion picture Love Begins at Twenty (aka All One Night), and the 1940 motion picture Calling All Husbands; adapted for television in 1951 episode of "Pulitzer Prize Playhouse"
Crossroads (1929, produced on Broadway 1929), the basis for the 1932 motion picture The Age of Consent
Tapestry in Gray (1935, produced on Broadway 1935)
Around the Corner (1936, produced on Broadway 1936)

The Big House (1930) (additional dialogue)
Passion Flower (1930) (adaptation of novel by Kathleen Norris)
Laughing Sinners (1931) (dialogue) (uncredited) ... aka Complete Surrender (USA)
Three Who Loved (1931)

v t e Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) (1928–1940)

Benjamin Glazer (1928) Hanns Kräly (1929) Joseph Farnham, Martin Flavin, Frances Marion and Lennox Robinson (1930) Howard Estabrook (1931) Edwin J. Burke (1932) Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason (1933) Robert Riskin (1934) Dudley Nichols (1935) Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney (1936) Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg and Norman Reilly Raine (1937) Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb and George Bernard Shaw (1938) Sidney Howard (1939) Donald Ogden Stewart (1940)

Complete list (1928–1940) (1941–1960) (1961–1980) (1981–2000) (2001–2020)

v t e Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1926–1950)

Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (declined) (1926) Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (1927) The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (1928) Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (1929) Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge (1930) Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (1931) The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1932) The Store by Thomas Sigismund Stribling (1933) Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Pafford Miller (1934) Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (1935) Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (1936) Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1937) The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (1938) The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1939) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1940) In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (1942) Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair (1943) Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (1944) A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (1945) All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (1947) Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (1948) Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (1949) The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (1950)

Complete list (1918–1925) (1926–1950) (1951–1975) (1976–2000) (2001–2025)

Persondata
Name	Flavin, Martin
Alternative names	Flavin, Martin Archer (full name)
Short description	Novelist, playwright, screenwriter
Date of birth	November 2, 1883
Place of birth	San Francisco, California, United States
Date of death	December 27, 1967
Place of death	Carmel, California, United States

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