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Born 18 November 1911, Mishawaka · gone at seven · the shelf stands in Authors & Books
The comedy side of a birth: the largest body of humor ever to come out of a Mishawaka birth belongs to Ruth McKenney, born in this city on 18 November 1911 and taken to East Cleveland at seven — the tie at its exact size, birth and seven years, as the authors record states it. Her New Yorker stories of the two sisters became My Sister Eileen (1938), and its stage afterlife is the largest any Mishawaka birth has had: the Broadway play of 1940 running past two years, the 1942 film with Rosalind Russell, and Comden and Green's and Leonard Bernstein's musical Wonderful Town (1953, 559 performances). The humor shelf runs on from there — The McKenneys Carry On (1940), The Loud Red Patrick (1947), Far, Far from Home (1954), the humorous account of the family's Brussels years — and it stands whole, book by book, in the authors & books record of this build. This entry is the pointer: the comedy claim is the work's, the ground claim is the birth's, and neither is enlarged here.
Sources
- This build's authors & books file — the McKenney entry whole, on the sources given there (the birth record and census against the standard biography; the New York Times obituary of 27 July 1972); this entry conforms to it.