- Birthday
- 1881-04-25
- Deathday
- 1943-12-09
- Place of Birth
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
Edgar Allan Woolf
WritingBiography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edgar Allan Woolf (25 April 1881 – 9 December 1943) was a lyricist, playwright, and screenwriter. He is best known as the co-author of the script for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Woolf was the son of Albert E. Woolf, a feather works employee, a manufacturer of disinfectant and an inventor of electrical devices, and Rosamond Wimpfheimer Woolf. Woolf attended City College of New York and Columbia University, graduating from the latter with an A.B in 1901. He wrote the annual Varsity Show, The Mischief Maker, in his senior year Actor and Playwright Woo...
