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Harold (George Harold) Hickerson
1893–1986
Best remembered as a co-writer of the Broadway drama Gods of the Lightning, he was part of the politically charged theater world of the late 1920s. His known work connects him to a stage play inspired by the Sacco and Vanzetti case, giving his writing a strong sense of its moment in American public life.
1 Audiobook
Gods of the lightning; Outside looking in
by Maxwell Anderson, Harold (George Harold) Hickerson, Jim Tully
About the author
Born in Texas on September 4, 1893, George Harold Hickerson is documented in genealogical records as George Harold Hickerson. Reliable theatrical sources credit Harold Hickerson as a writer of Gods of the Lightning, a Broadway drama that opened in 1928.
That play was written with Maxwell Anderson and was inspired by the Sacco and Vanzetti case, one of the most controversial legal and political stories of its era. Because of that connection, Hickerson's surviving reputation rests on work that joined theater with urgent public debate.
Very little broadly documented biographical material about him appears to survive online beyond these credits and basic family records, so a full life story is hard to confirm with confidence. He died in 1986.