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Jo Swerling (April 8, 1897 – October 23, 1964) was an American theatre writer, lyricist, and screenwriter.
His daughter, Laurie Burrows Grad, is the author of four cookbooks and host of her own cooking show on The Learning Channel. Abe Burrows died from Alzheimer's disease in his native New York City.
She is the daughter of producet Jo Swerling, Jr. & Nona Norris. Tanya M. Swerling is known for The Boys in the Boat (2023), The Tender Bar (2021) and Catch-22 (2019).
May 19, 1985 · Abe Burrows, a bespectacled accountant whose witty love for words led him to a career as a pioneering radio writer and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Broadway musicals, has died at his home...
He died in 1969 from lung cancer. His life was filled with an unrelenting pursuit of music and theatre from a young age until he died. His way with words and music shaped entertainment during his career. “You know, he had this slang that he picked up—the way people spoke,” said his youngest daughter, Emily.
Abe Burrows died after a long bout with Alzheimer’s disease. His daughter and her husband, former television executive Peter Grad, are patrons of “A Night at Sardi’s”, a benefit event that has raised over sixteen million dollars for the Alzheimer’s Association.
Dec 2, 2001 · PEOPLE viewing ''It's a Wonderful Life'' in the coming weeks will probably not know the names Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. (She died in 1984, and he survived her until 1995.)
