william inge

     

"Picnic" won him a Pulitzer in 1953

Trivia about william inge

  • An April festival in Independence, Kansas honors this playwright; we hope they have a "Picnic"
  • "Picnic"
  • His play "Bus Stop" was revived on Broadway in 1996
  • This Kansas-born dramatist set his play "Picnic" in a small Kansas town
  • It was a picnic for him when he won in 1953 for "Picnic"
  • He revised his 1st play, "Farther Off From Heaven", & retitled it "The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs"
  • This "Picnic" playwright's screenplay for "Splendor In The Grass" won a 1961 Oscar
  • 1953 was his year: he won both the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award & the Pulitzer Prize for "Picnic"
  • This dramatist's "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" was a reworking of his first play
  • Each April Independence, Kansas holds a festival to honor this "Picnic" playwright who was born there

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