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Orrie Lashin

Best known for co-writing the Depression-era play Class of '29, this little-documented writer left behind a small but intriguing body of work. The surviving record points to a playwright and novelist interested in dashed hopes, hard times, and the pressure of modern life.

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Class of '29

Class of '29

by Orrie Lashin, Milo Hastings

About the author

Orrie Lashin is a hard-to-trace American author and playwright whose name survives mainly through a few published works. The clearest confirmed credit is Class of '29, a three-act play co-written with Milo Hastings and published in the late 1930s; theater databases also list the work as a Broadway production credit.

Lashin is also credited with The End of Dreams, a novel published in 1947. Beyond those titles, reliable biographical details are scarce, so even basic facts about Lashin's life are not consistently documented in the sources available online.

That lack of background makes the work itself stand out even more. Taken together, the confirmed titles suggest a writer drawn to disappointment, ambition, and the uneasy mood of the years shaped by the Great Depression and its aftermath.