Isaac Clark Pray was an American

United States

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 author

Author

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 and playwright

Playwright

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.

Powell was born in Boston

Boston

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, and educated at Amherst College

Amherst College

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. He was on the staff of the Journal of Commerce and the Herald

Boston Herald

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 in Boston. He was a successful theatrical manager, and among the persons whom he trained for the stage was Charlotte Cushman. He appeared in a number of English

England

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 and Irish

Ireland

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 theaters, and produced a successful play, Virginius, and a number of dramas and burlesques. He was the author of Poems (1837); Book of the Drama (1851); Memoirs of James Gordon Bennett

James Gordon Bennett, Sr.

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and his Times; and other works.