found: Contemporary authors online, April 11, 2013(Jerome Kass; also known as Jerome Allan Kass; born April 21, 1937, Chicago, IL; playwright and screenwriter; taught literature at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Queens College of the City University of New York, and at Suffolk County Community College, Lake Ronkonkoma, NY, 1961-1967; New York University, A.B., 1958, A.M., 1959; Brandeis University, graduate study, 1960-1961; lives in Los Angeles, CA)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 26, 2015(in obituary published Oct. 24: Jerome Kass; b. Jerome Allan Kass, Apr. 21, 1937, Chicago; grew up in the Bronx; d. Thursday [Oct. 22, 2015], Manhattan, aged 78; wrote the Tony-nominated book for the 1978 Broadway musical Ballroom, which was adapted from his own Emmy-nominated teleplay about older people who salve their loneliness on the dance floor)
