Shortly after Stark Young 's death, a group of people primarily from the New York theatrical world gathered at the Morosco Theatre to pay tribute to him as the best twentieth-century critic of the New York stage. Linked with an ephemeral medium, the preeminent drama critic Stark Young , like the actors and actresses of whom he wrote, is passing from memory. Time has likewise not been kind to his reputation as a novelist, which was at its peak in the mid-1930s, when his Civil War novel So Red the Rose (1934) was enjoying great popular and critical success. Even as late as 1950, Henry Steele Commager (in The American Mind) was calling Young the "most eloquent of the Southern romantics and the most persuasive," the writer who "more felicitously than any of his compatriots ... presented the case for traditionalism in modern America." Now, thirty years afterward, few would take...