Avery Hopwood

Avery Hopwood was an American playwright who wrote farces such as Getting Gertie's Garter[?] (1927).

Born: 1882
Died: 1928

He is most famous for establishing the Hopwood Award at the the University of Michigan. Arthur Miller would later win one of those awards for his first play.

http://www.theatre.msu.edu/web/archives/Hopwood,%20Avery/hopwooda
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see: the play, Michigan