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Mary Hoyt Wiborg
Mary Hoyt Wiborg (January 28, 1888 – March 27, 1964) was an American playwright, art patron, and socialite. She wrote the 1922 play Taboo that starred Paul Robeson.[1]
Wiborg was born in Cincinnati to businessman Frank Bestow Wiborg. Her mother was a daughter of financier Hoyt Sherman, and a niece of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Senator John Sherman. She had two sisters, Olga Wiborg and Sara Sherman Wiborg.
Wiborg lived in Paris, France, and according to her obituary in The New York Times, was active in the Red Cross and, during World War II, served in the French Resistance. She was a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor.[2]
- ^ "Early Actors and Directors". eO'Neill. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
Because of his performance in that play, the people involved in a production called Taboo asked him to be in it. The play was written by a white woman named Mary Hoyt Wiborg and treated a familiar theme of superstitions and myth among black people.
- ^ "Mary Hoyt Wiborg, aided French in War". The New York Times. March 28, 1964.