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Charles L. Mee (born September 15, 1938) is an American playwright, historian and author known for his collage-like style of playwriting, which makes use of radical reconstructions of found texts. He is also a professor of theater at Columbia University. ==Early life and career== Mee was born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1938. He contracted polio at the age of fourteen. His memoir ''A Nearly Normal Life'' (1999) tells how that event informed the rest of his life. After graduating from Harvard University in 1960, Mee moved to Greenwich Village and became a part of the Off-Off-Broadway scene. Between 1962 and 1964, his plays were presented at venues that included La MaMa E.T.C., Caffe Cino, Theatre Genesis, and the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. In 1961 Mee began work at American Heritage publishing company and eventually became the editor of the hardback bi-monthly ''Horizon: A Magazine of the Arts''. He was also the Advising Editor and then Contributing Editor of ''Tulane Drama Review'' – now called ''TDR'' and published from New York University – until 1964 and its Associate Editor from 1964 to 1965. To support himself and his family, Mee turned from writing plays to writing books in 1965. ''Lorenzo De’Medici and the Renaissance'', the first of his many nonfiction books, was published in 1969 by HarperCollins Juvenile Books. At the same time, he increasingly became caught up in anti-Vietnam War politics, campaigning for anti-war congressional candidates and writing anti-war polemics. He wouldn't return to writing for the theater for another 20 years. In the 1970s, he became the co-founder and chairman of The National Committee on the Presidency, a grassroots organization which called for the impeachment of Richard Nixon. His political activism led to his writing of political histories for the general public. ''Meeting at Potsdam'' (1975), about the 1945 Potsdam Conference, was chosen as a main selection of the Literary Guild, and was adapted for film and television by David Susskind. He went on to write other books on summit diplomacy, international power sharing, and American history, including ''The End of Order: Versailles 1919'' (1980); ''The Marshall Plan: The Launching of Pax Americana'' (1987), and ''The Genius of the People'' (1987), about the 1787 Constitutional Convention; ''A Visit to Haldeman and Other States of Mind'' (1976) was called "part autobiographical meditation, part elegiac crank letter to the American Republic, part confession and part essay on democratic politics" by ''Time''. As recently as 2002, Greil Marcus claimed that it was one of the best books he had read about American patriotism.〔Marcus, Greil. ("Real Life Rock Top 10" (see item #9) ) Slate, September 23, 2002, Retrieved July 27, 2009.〕 ''Playing God: Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the World'' (1993) was Mee’s final published work of history. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles L. Mee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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