Lanford Wilson
Lanford Eugene Wilson (born April 13, 1937 in Lebanon , Missouri , † March 24, 2011 in Wayne , New Jersey ) was an American playwright who received the Pulitzer Prize for Theater in 1980 for his play Talley's Folly, A Tale Told .
Life
After graduating from Ozark High School in 1955, he studied briefly at San Diego State University and then at the University of Chicago .
In the mid-1960s, he began writing plays, which were often shaped by his own openly lived homosexuality .
He made his drama debut in 1963 with So Long at the Fair . In the period that followed, numerous other stage works such as Balm in Gilead (1965), The Rimers of Eldritch (1967), Home Free! (1968), The Madness of Lady Bright (1968), The Gingham Dog (1969), Lemon Sky (1970), The Great Nebula in Orion (1971), The Hot L Baltimore (1973), The Mound Builders (1975) and The 5th of July (1978).
He had a great success in 1980 with Talley's Folly, A Tale Told , for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Theater. This was followed by several other dramas such as Angels Fall (1982), Talley and Son (1985), Burn This (1987), Redwood Curtain (1993), Sympathetic Magic (1998) and most recently Book of Days (2000). Many of his pieces have also been used in television films .
Lanford Wilson also co-founded the Circle Repertory Theater Company in New York City . In 2004 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Well-known actors in his plays were Adam Frost in The Hot L Baltimore , Kathy Bates , Jeff Daniels and Ann Guilbert in The 5th of July , Farley Granger in Talley and Son and Peter Sarsgaard in Burn This .
Lanford Wilson died in March 2011 at the age of 73 from complications from pneumonia.
Web links and sources
- Literature by and about Lanford Wilson in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lanford Wilson in nndb (English)
- Lanford Wilson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography (eNotes.com)
- Doollee-The Playwrites Database
- Biography (imagi-nation.com)
- Biography (glbtq.com)
- Books by Lanford Wilson (Google Books)
- Article on Lanford Wilson in The New York Times
Individual evidence
- ^ Gabriele Griffin: Who's Who In Lesbian and Gay Writing , p. 282 (2002)
- ^ Annette J. Saddik, Martin Halliwell, Andy Mousley: Contemporary American Drama , p. 152 (2007)
- ^ Members: Lanford Wilson. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed May 4, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilson, Lanford |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilson, Lanford Eugene (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lebanon , Missouri |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 2011 |
| Place of death | Wayne, New Jersey , New Jersey |