{"product_id":"the-cherokee-night-and-other-plays-9780806133331","title":"The Cherokee Night and Other Plays","description":"\u003ci\u003eSpecial Limited Edition leatherbound hardcover\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The author of numerous plays and film scripts, including\u003ci\u003e Green Grow the Lilacs\u003c\/i\u003e, later made into the hit musical \u003ci\u003eOklahoma!\u003c\/i\u003e, Lynn Riggs (18991954) is recognized as one of America's most engaging dramatists and was the only active American Indian dramatist during the first half of the twentieth century. An elegant leatherbound collector's edition, \u003ci\u003eThe Cherokee Night and Other Plays\u003c\/i\u003e, features his never-before-published play \u003ci\u003eOut of Dust\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Cherokee Night\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGreen Grow the Lilacs\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A mixed-blood Cherokee, Riggs wrote about the people, places, and events of the Oklahoma he knew so well. A cattle rancher's son, Riggs was born in the Verdigris Valley south of Claremore in Indian Territory. He first gained recognition as a poet in the early 1920s while attending the University of Oklahoma and later moved to New York, where he worked on and around Broadway. In 1927 Riggs was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, and while in France on that fellowship, he began writing Green Grow the Lilacs, which Rodgers and Hammerstein made into the Broadway musical \u003ci\u003eOklahoma! \u003c\/i\u003ein 1943. By the end of his life, Riggs had written some thirty plays and scripts for fourteen films produced between 1930 and 1955. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In their 1939 Handbook of Oklahoma Writers, Mary Hays Marable and Elaine Boylan observe: \"Lynn Riggs hitched his wagon to Pegasus and rode into the theatre with an output of poetic and regional plays that has brought him outstanding success.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiggs, Lynn:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLynn Riggs \u003c\/strong\u003e(1899?1954) was the author of numerous plays, including \u003cem\u003eGreen Grow the Lilacs\u003c\/em\u003e, the basis for the musical \u003cem\u003eOklahoma!ÿ\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeaver, Jace:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJace Weaver\u003c\/b\u003e is Franklin Professor of Native American Studies and Religion at the University of Georgia. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51830485647634,"sku":"9780806133331","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_562c0833-357b-4bc5-aa88-90f9a6e10d4e.jpg?v=1767004192","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-cherokee-night-and-other-plays-9780806133331","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}