Montague Glass

Born in Manchester, England, in 1877, Montague Glass came to the United States as a boy and later studied law in New York. He practiced as a lawyer before leaving the profession around 1909 to write full time.

Glass became widely known for humorous stories about Jewish immigrant life and New York's garment business. His most famous creations were Abe Potash and Morris "Mawrus" Perlmutter, a pair of business partners whose lively dialogue and everyday troubles made them favorites with readers.

His work reached far beyond magazines and books. The Potash and Perlmutter characters were adapted for the theater and for films, helping make Glass one of the best-known popular humorists of his era. He died in 1934 in Westport, Connecticut.