WOOLLCOTT, ALEXANDER. Noted theatrical critic, wit, and essayist of the first half of the 20th century; b. Phalanx, New Jersey, ; d. New York, New York, .
Today Alexander Woollcott is perhaps best remembered as the model for the character Sheridan Whiteside in Kaufman AND Hart ’s comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner . In the play, he was depicted as a vain, vituperative sentimentalist. In real life, he was all those things and more...