Irving Fineman(1893-1976)
- Writer
Irving Fineman (aka Jonathan Joseph) was born in New York City on April
9, 1893, the son of a businessman. He graduated from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1917 and did advanced work at Harvard
University. For a few years he was an engineering instructor at the
University of Illinois-Urbana, but left in 1928 to become a freelance
writer. He has written novels, plays, short stories, poems, and has
contributed to literary and critical publications. His 1932 novel
"Lovers Must Learn" was filmed in 1962 as
Rome Adventure (1962).
