Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan (born Elia Kazantzoglou) was born in Constantinople in 1909 to Greek parents. When he was four years old, his parents emigrated to the United States, where Kazan would attend school. As a child, he felt alienated from his surroundings, relating neither to his Greek Orthodox parents nor the mainstream American culture into which they were trying to assimilate. He attended Williams College in Massachusetts, waiting tables to make tuition and eventually graduating cum laude. He then...
