Author Forman Justus Miles

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Justus Miles Forman (November 1, 1875 - May 7, 1915) was an American novelist and playwright. His only play, The Hyphen, appeared in 1915, but it did not receive the success Forman expected. The Hyphen was a topical drama about those people in the United States who were either "German-American" or "Irish-American" and whose patriotism was questioned due to the war going on in Europe (were they favoring the Germans or Irish, or were they ready to defend American interests). Forman was hoping that the drama would do better business in a production in London. He decided to book a first-class passage aboard the RMS Lusitania. Days before he was to board the liner, he received a mysterious phone call from a man with a thick German accent, who warned him not to board the Lusitania . He ignored the phone call and boarded the Lusitania on May 1, 1915. The Lusitania was torpedoed on May 7, 1915, and Forman was among the 1,198 passengers who died. His body was never recovered.