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Lanford Wilson

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American playwright (1937-2011)

United StatesWritersLived 1937 to 2011 · aged 73
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Lanford Wilson was an American playwright. His work, as described by The New York Times, was "earthy, realist, greatly admired [and] widely performed". Wilson helped to advance the off-off-Broadway theater movement with his earliest plays, which were first produced at the Caffe Cino beginning in 1964.

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1980Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Guggenheim Fellowship
star on Playwrights' Sidewalk

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Lanford Wilson was an American playwright. His work, as described by The New York Times, was "earthy, realist, greatly admired [and] widely performed". Wilson helped to advance the off-off-Broadway theater movement with his earliest plays, which were first produced 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.

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United States
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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deceased
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Lived 1937 to 2011 · aged 73
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12 languages

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