Ashton Stevens, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American theatre critic
Date of Birth: 11-Aug-1872
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States
Date of Death: 12-Jul-1951
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Ashton Stevens
- Ashton P.
- Stevens (August 11, 1872 – July 12, 1951) was an American journalist regarded as the dean of American drama critics.
- His newspaper column appeared in The San Francisco Examiner and later in the Chicago Herald-American.
- He was theatre critic for the Hearst Newspapers for 50 years, 40 of them in Chicago.
- The character of Jedediah Leland in the film Citizen Kane is based on Stevens, a close boyhood friend of Orson Welles.
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