biography
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Inge, William (Motter)
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pronunciation:
[inj]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1913–73)
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| biography:
| Playwright and novelist, born in Independence, Kansas, USA. He studied at Kansas University and George Peabody College for Teachers, became a schoolteacher (1937–49), and worked as a drama editor (1943–6) for the St Louis Star-Times. Outside the mainstream of American theatre, he is best remembered for Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), Picnic (1953, Pulitzer), Bus Stop (1955), and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (first produced as Farther off from Heaven in 1947, and revised in 1957). |
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