Biography of avery hopwood

Partner John Floyd

Queer Places:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Stati Uniti
Riverside Cemetery, Pearl Rd, Cleveland, OH , Stati Uniti

James Avery Hopwood (May 28, – July 1, ) was an American playwright of the Jazz Age. He had four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in First introduced to the homosexual scene by Carl Van Vechten in the early s, he had an ongoing, tempestuous, and often physically abusive (to Hopwood) relationship with a young playwright, John Floyd. Thirteen years his junior, Floyd's passport application indicates that he had known Hopwood from an early age when both lived in Cleveland. Floyd eventually had one successful play on Broadway, The Wooden Kimono (), no doubt due to Hopwood's guidance. According to Gertrude Stein, Hopwood was a favorite in her circle during the early days because he was charming and gentle as a lamb; in the "latter days the lamb turned into a wolf."

Hopwood was born to James and Jule Hopwood on May 28, , in