A. R. Gurney
1930
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2017
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Williams College, Yale School of Drama, St. Paul's School, Nichols School
occupation: novelist, librettist, writer, screenwriter
Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr. (November 1, 1930 – June 13, 2017) (sometimes credited as Pete Gurney) was an American playwright, novelist and academic.Gurney is known for plays including The Dining Room (1982), Sweet Sue (1986/7), The Cocktail Hour (1988), and for his Pulitzer Prize nominated play Love Letters (1988). His series of plays about upper-class WASP life in contemporary America have been called "penetratingly witty studies of the WASP ascendancy in retreat." Source: Wikipedia (en)
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