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Robert Allerton Parker
Robert Allerton Parker, a journalist, critic and writer, came to New York from California to try his hand at playwriting and became part of the radical Greenwich Village circle. In...view moreRobert Allerton Parker, a journalist, critic and writer, came to New York from California to try his hand at playwriting and became part of the radical Greenwich Village circle. In addition to serving as a drama critic and contributor to periodicals such as Critical Opinion and The Arts, Parker became interested in popular religious movements and was the author of several biographies including A Yankee Saint (1935), a study of John Humphrey Noyes, and The Incredible Messiah (1937) which examined the Father Divine movement.view less