Biography:

Playwright, screenwriter, illustrator. Born– Shelbyville, Ky.; moved to Birmingham as a child.  Parents– Lew and Hannah Schwab Lazarus. Married– Maude Lazarus. Educated in Birmingham. Secretary and treasurer, Birmingham Mattress Company; moved to New York in 1919, and wrote stage plays; later moved to California, where he wrote screen plays, including Gabette, Come Along Mandy, and Dixie to Broadway. He and his wife committed suicide November 28, 1933.

Source:

Files at Birmingham Public Library.

Publication(s):

Why Can’t I Fly. New York; Scribner, 1949.

Illustrator;

The Singing Cobbler. New York; Harper, 1939.