Essex County - West Orange - Edison Narratives in Film, Theater, and Literature: Thomas Edison NHP Book Club
Edison Narratives in Film, Theater, and Literature - Speaker: Ben Clawson Sunday, March 1 - West Orange, Essex County Thomas Edison and the Literary Imagination From The Future Eve , an 1885 French science fiction novel to the recent motion picture The Current War , the life and work of Thomas Edison has inspired the imagination and creativity of novelists, playwrights and filmmakers. In a program that evokes this tradition, award-winning playwright Ben Clawson will discuss his own creative work on Thomas Edison at the fifth meeting of the Edison Book Club on Sunday at 2:00 pm. Mr. Clawson, who received his B.F.A. from Montclair State University and co-founded the StrangeDog Theater Company, is the author of The Dangers of Electric Lighting , which deals with the rivalry between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla during the infamous 1880s Battle of the Currents. His other plays include King of the Mountains , about Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir's 1903...