Van Zorn

About the book

Van Zorn is a comedy of New York City artist life written in 1914 by Edwin Arlington Robinson. It is one of Robinson's two published plays, published just before his volume of poems The Man Against the Sky. As of 1920, Van Zorn's only public performances was a 1917 run given in a Brooklyn hall by a semi-professional company. It has not fared so well in the hundred years since. Van Zorn is about a fatalist who, attempting to play the part of destiny in a love affair, runs counter to a man with a destiny better than his own. (This summary is from Wikipedia.)