Samuel Atkins Eliot Jr. (March 14, 1893 – August 3, 1984) was an American author, born in

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and educated at

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. He was the son of Samuel Atkins Eliot, a prominent Unitarian clergyman, and the grandson of

Charles W. Eliot Charles William Eliot (March 20, 1834 – August 22, 1926) was an American academic who was president of Harvard University from 1869 to 1909the longest term of any Harvard president. A member of the prominent Eliot family of Boston, he transfo ...

, a president of

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. Samuel Eliot Jr. wrote books on the theatre and made many translations from the German playwright

Frank Wedekind Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (July 24, 1864 – March 9, 1918) was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism and was influential in the de ...

. His works include ''Little Theatre Classics'' (four volumes, (1918–21); ''Erdgeist'' (1914); ''Pandora's Box'' (1914); and ''Tragedies of Sex'' (1923).

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