A. R. Gurney
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Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr. (November 1, 1930 – June 13, 2017) (sometimes credited as Pete Gurney) was an American playwright, novelist and academic.[1][2][3]
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Born | Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr. (1930-11-01)November 1, 1930 Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
Died | June 13, 2017(2017-06-13) (aged 86) Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
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Education | Williams College (BA) Yale University (MFA) |
Genre | Theatre |
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Gurney is known for plays including The Dining Room (1982), Sweet Sue (1986/7), The Cocktail Hour (1988), and for his Pulitzer Prize nominated play Love Letters (1988). His series of plays about upper-class WASP life in contemporary America have been called "penetratingly witty studies of the WASP ascendancy in retreat."[4]