The Dramatic Story that Capitvated a Generation With this new edition, the classic best-selling autobiography by the late playwright Moss Hart returns to print in the thirtieth anniversary of its original publication. Issued in tandem with "Kitty," the revealing autobiography of his wife, Kitty Carlisle Hart, " Act One," is a landmark memoir that incluenced a generation of theatergoers, dramatists, and general book readers everywhere. The book eloquently chronicles Moss Hart's impoverished childhood in the Bronx and Brooklyn and his long, determined struggle to his first theatreical Broadway success, "Once in a Lifetime." One of the most celebrated American theater books of the twentieth centure and a glorious memorial to a bygone age, "Act One" if filled with all the wonder, drama, and heartbreak that surrounded Broadway in the 1920s and the years before World War II.

莫斯•哈特（Moss Hart , 1904-1961）：从上世纪二三十年代开始,莫斯•哈特几乎就是美国戏剧的代名词。他在1904年10月出生于纽约布朗克斯区,因家境贫困,很早就踏入社会,17岁开始写作。1925年,他的舞台剧《持枪者》正式公演,此后,他本人以及同乔

治•S•考夫曼合作,相继写出了几部十分卖座的百老汇舞台剧。他还指导了欧文•柏林、科尔•波特、库尔特•威尔和埃拉•格什温的作品。他创作和执导的《黑暗中的女人》以及《窈窕淑女》,是闻名遐迩的百老汇戏剧；他与乔治•考夫曼合著的《浮生若梦》和《晚餐的约定》,至今仍是美国喜剧舞台上的两颗璀璨的明珠（前者曾获普利策戏剧奖）。

从1932年起,莫斯•哈特也开始为电影创作剧本,其中《百鸟朝凤》获得奥斯卡金像奖最佳原著故事提名。1947年,他的《君子协定》获金像奖最佳电影剧本提名。

莫斯•哈特曾任美国戏剧家协会主席和美国作家联盟主席,1961年12月20日,他因突发心脏病而不幸辞世。