William Inge
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William Motter Inge was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. With his portraits of small-town life and se
Inge in 1954
Portrait of William Inge by Carl Van Vechten
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs is a 1957 play by William Inge about family conflicts during the early 1920s in a small Oklahoma town. It was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play in 1958 and w
William Inge
…productions, including Picnic, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play twice, for Bus Stop and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. He also won an Academy Award for writing the screenplay to the film Splendor in the Grass (1961). Inge was born in Independence, Kansas, the fifth…
L. to R.: Timmy Everett, Eileen Heckart and Frank Overton in a scene from the stage production The Dark at the Top of the Stairs