William Inge
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. William Motter Inge (May 3, 1913(1913-05-03) June 10, 1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. In the early 1950s, he had a string of memorable Broadway productions, and one of these, Picnic, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. With his portraits of small-town life and settings rooted in the American heartland, Inge became known as the "Playwright of the Midwest." Inge began…mehr

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. William Motter Inge (May 3, 1913(1913-05-03) June 10, 1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. In the early 1950s, he had a string of memorable Broadway productions, and one of these, Picnic, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. With his portraits of small-town life and settings rooted in the American heartland, Inge became known as the "Playwright of the Midwest." Inge began as a drama critic at the St. Louis Star-Times in 1943. With Tennessee Williams''s encouragement, Inge wrote his first play, Farther Off from Heaven (1947), which was staged at Margo Jones'' Theatre ''47 in Dallas, Texas. While a teacher at Washington University in St. Louis in 1946 1949, he wrote Come Back, Little Sheba. It ran on Broadway for 190 performances in 1950, winning Tony Awards for Shirley Booth and Sidney Blackmer. The 1952 film adaptation won both an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Shirley Booth. Willy van Hemert directed a 1955 adaptation for Dutch television, and NBC aired another TV production in 1977.