Playwright, Screenwriter. His play "Talley's Folly" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1980). His parents divorced when he was five years old and he moved with his mother and grandmother from home to home throughout Missouri during his childhood. He studied writing at the University of Chicago (later playwriting) and following graduation, he moved to New York City where he became associated with the Cafe Cino Group. He initiated his writing career with the play "So Long at the Fair" (1963), followed by "Home Free" (1964) and "Balm in Giliad" (1965). During this period, Wilson formed what would become a highly-successful collaboration with director Marshall W. Mason, and by the close of the decade the pair established the Circle Repertory Company (1969). Around that same time, Wilson started staging Broadway plays beginning with "The Gringham Dog" (1969), and received Tony Award nominations for "Talley's Folly" (1980), "Fifth of July" (1981) and "Angels Fall" (1983). Several of his stories were adapted into TV-movies including "The Migrates" (1974, which received an Emmy Award nomination), "Lemon Sky" (1988, which he also provided the screenplay) and "Redwood Curtain" (1995). He died from complications of pneumonia.
Playwright, Screenwriter. His play "Talley's Folly" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1980). His parents divorced when he was five years old and he moved with his mother and grandmother from home to home throughout Missouri during his childhood. He studied writing at the University of Chicago (later playwriting) and following graduation, he moved to New York City where he became associated with the Cafe Cino Group. He initiated his writing career with the play "So Long at the Fair" (1963), followed by "Home Free" (1964) and "Balm in Giliad" (1965). During this period, Wilson formed what would become a highly-successful collaboration with director Marshall W. Mason, and by the close of the decade the pair established the Circle Repertory Company (1969). Around that same time, Wilson started staging Broadway plays beginning with "The Gringham Dog" (1969), and received Tony Award nominations for "Talley's Folly" (1980), "Fifth of July" (1981) and "Angels Fall" (1983). Several of his stories were adapted into TV-movies including "The Migrates" (1974, which received an Emmy Award nomination), "Lemon Sky" (1988, which he also provided the screenplay) and "Redwood Curtain" (1995). He died from complications of pneumonia.
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