Doris troutman plenn biography samples

Actor Martin Sheen performed the song during his radio singing debut on A Prairie Home Companion in September 2007, but the most popular recording of the song came in 1991 when Irish vocalist, Enya, recorded it using Plenn’s unique third verse.

Enya and her recording company were sued for copyright infringement, but a court found that Plenn’s interest was solely in preserving the song rather than making a profit from it. Enya was allowed to use the song without paying royalties.

Doris was first married to Emjo Basshe, a Lithuanian-born Jewish playwright of Spanish ancestry and theater director who co-founded New York City's New Playwrights Theatre in 1926.

In 1931 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was a founding member, in 1935, of the League of American Writers. When he died in 1939, Doris moved back to Troutman.

In 1954 after marrying author Abel Plenn, she published&n