William Inge

William Inge was born in 1913 in Independence, Kansas, where his mother ran a boarding house. A graduate of the University of Kansas, he taught English and drama in a high school in Kansas and then in a college in Missouri, before becoming a drama critic in St. Louis, where he met Tennessee Williams, who encouraged him to write. Four plays made him famous between 1950 and 1957; a screenplay won him an Oscar in 1962. His later works were poorly received. He died in Los Angeles in 1973.

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• TheatrePicnicWilliam Inge · 1953Literature