Paul Firestone - Educator, Psychoanalyst, Playright & Actor

PAUL FIRESTONE
Educator, Psychoanalyst, Playright & Actor

Paul Firestone earned his B.S., M.A., and Ed.D. at Columbia University and taught comparative literature at Brandeis University. Firestone founded and served as headmaster of the college preparatory day school New Rochelle Academy for more than thirty-five years. A member of the Dramatists Guild, Actor's Equity, Screen Actors Guild and the National Arts Club, he has written many plays on contemporary and historical themes, and has had several plays produced Off-Broadway, among them Sublime Lives and A Comedy of Eros.

With his most recent literary work The Pulitzer Prize Plays - The First Fifty Years, 1917-1967, A Dramatic Reflection of American Life, Firestone "delivers one of the most comprehensive compendiums of essays on these vital works. Firestone's understanding of each play's substance is rich and impressive. His vast and ambitious examination takes into account many different elements -- characters, plots and symbolism, as well as the lives and psychology of the playwrights, the historical context in which the plays emerged, and their relevance on sociological, political, familial, psychological and spiritual levels." ....Read more about the book