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Harold (George Harold) Hickerson
1893–1986
Best remembered as a co-writer of the 1928 Broadway drama Gods of the Lightning, this early-20th-century writer is linked to a play inspired by the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Surviving public information is limited, which gives his work an air of rarity for modern readers and listeners.
1 Audiobook
Gods of the lightning; Outside looking in
by Maxwell Anderson, Harold (George Harold) Hickerson, Jim Tully
About the author
Publicly available sources from this search identify Harold Hickerson, more fully listed in some catalogs as George Harold Hickerson, as a writer associated with Gods of the Lightning, a three-act Broadway drama written with Maxwell Anderson. The play was produced in 1928 and drew on the controversial Sacco and Vanzetti case, placing Hickerson in the world of politically charged American theater.
Catalog and archive records also show a Harold Hickerson connected with later anthropological and ethnohistorical studies, especially work on Chippewa history and culture. Because the available sources here do not clearly prove that the playwright and the anthropologist were the same person, it is safest to treat that connection with caution.
No clearly verified portrait image was confirmed in this search, and detailed biographical information appears to be scarce in easily accessible public sources. Even so, Hickerson remains an intriguing figure because his name survives through a dramatic work tied to one of the most debated legal cases of the 1920s.