The most successful of the Group Theatre playwrights, for 10 points, name this American who wrote Golden Boy and Waiting for Lefty.
This writer penned an updated version of the story of Noah's Ark in one work, while Frank Elgin and Charlie Castle are two entertainer protagonists of two of his later works. Bessie excessively worries about the reputation of the Berger household in this author's second work, while Miller is haunted by the vision of three family members dying in World War One in his first work. In addition to The Flowering Peach, The Country Girl, and The Big Knife, he wrote a play that begins with the protagonist seizing the opportunity to face a character named "the Baltimore Chocolate Drop". Besides writing (*) Awake and Sing!, this playwright wrote a work in which Joe Bonaparte breaks his hand, solidifying his transition from playing the violin to boxing and a work in which the titular character, Costello, never appears onstage with the New York City taxi cab drivers. The most successful of the Group Theatre playwrights, for 10 points, name this American who wrote Golden Boy and Waiting for Lefty.
This writer penned an updated version of the story of Noah's Ark in one work, while Frank Elgin and Charlie Castle are two entertainer protagonists of two of his later works.
{Clifford Odets}