Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilsonwas a Pulitzer Prize winning, American playwright, whose work, as described by the New York Times, was "earthy, realist, greatly admired widely performed". Wilson also helped to advance the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement with his earliest plays, which were first produced in New York at the Caffe Cino beginning in 1964. He was one of the first playwrights to move from Off-Off-Broadway, to Off-Broadway, then Broadway, and beyond. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980 and was...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth13 April 1937
CountryUnited States of America
I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.
I haven't written a word - except for some correspondence - since last September 8, when I finished my translation of Ibsen's Ghosts.
Lots of my friends and family belong to churches, and some of them are part of the so-called Christian Right. In this preacher, I wanted to show a good man struggling to reconcile his commitment to the community with the political agenda of his church. He does not see that as a dilemma, but I do.
Nobody's safe around a writer.
I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.
I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.