A. R. Gurney (1930–2017)
Forfatter af The Dining Room
Om forfatteren
Albert Ramsdell Gurney was born in Buffalo, New York on November 1, 1930. He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts, served for several years as an officer in the Navy, and then enrolled in the playwriting program at the Yale School of Drama. After graduation, he taught English at a vis mere private school and then joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught American literature and the humanities until the early 1980s. He was a prolific playwright and an author. His plays included The Dining Room, The Middle Ages, The Cocktail Hour, The Perfect Party, Another Antigone, Love Letters, The Old Boy, Later Life, Labor Day, Far East, Sylvia, The Fourth Wall, O Jerusalem, Mrs. Farnsworth, Screen Play, and Post Mortem. His novels included The Gospel According to Joe, Entertaining Strangers, and The Snow Ball. He died on June 13, 2017 at the age of 86. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af A. R. Gurney
Love Letters and Two Other Plays: The Golden Age, What I Did Last Summer (Plume Drama) (1990) 109 eksemplarer
A. R. Gurney, Vol. II: Collected Plays, 1974-1983 (Contemporary American Playwrights) (A R Gurney Selected Plays) (1999) 19 eksemplarer
Four Plays: Scenes from American Life : Children, the Middle Ages, the Dining Room (1985) 12 eksemplarer
The Old One-Two 3 eksemplarer
The David Show 3 eksemplarer
Another Antigone 2 eksemplarer
Dining Room, The ; Act 1 & 2 1 eksemplar
De eetkamer 1 eksemplar
Public Affairs: The Love Course 1 eksemplar
The Golden Age: A Play in Two Acts 1 eksemplar
The Dining Room [1984 film] — Screenwriter — 1 eksemplar
Public Affairs: The Open Meeting 1 eksemplar
Children, A Play in Two Acts 1 eksemplar
The Golden Fleece: A play in one act 1 eksemplar
Children 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Four Plays by Eugene O'Neill: Anna Christie; The Hairy Ape; The Emperor Jones; Beyond the Horizon (1998) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 217 eksemplarer
Monologues Women: 50 Speeches from the Contemporary Theatre (v. 1) (1976) — Bidragyder — 30 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Gurney, Albert Ramsdell, Jr.
- Andre navne
- Gurney, Pete
Gurney, Albert Ramsdell - Fødselsdato
- 1930-11-01
- Dødsdag
- 2017-06-13
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Buffalo, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- New York, New York, USA
- Uddannelse
- Williams College (AB|1952)
Yale School of Drama (MFA|1958) - Erhverv
- playwright
- Organisationer
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (2006)
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- #20,884
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- 3.6
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- 92
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