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'A.R. Gurney' (b. November 1, 1930) is an American playwright and novelist. The playwright is known for works including ''Love Letters'', ''The Cocktail Hour'', and ''The Dining Room''. Gurney currently lives in both New York and Connecticut.

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Biography

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Biography

Born in Buffalo, New York, Gurney, a graduate of St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire), attended Williams College and the Yale School of Drama, after which he began teaching Humanities at MIT. He began writing plays such as ''Scenes from American Life'', ''Children'', and ''The Middle Ages'' while at MIT, but it was his great success with ''The Dining Room'' that allowed him to write full-time. Since ''The Dining Room'', Gurney has written a number of plays, most of them concerning WASPs of the American northeast. Gurney also wrote the musical: ''Love in Buffalo''. This was the first musical ever produced at Yale.
Gurney has also written several novels; in addition to the abovementioned ''The Snow Ball'', they include:

★ ''The Gospel According to Joe''

★ ''Entertaining Strangers'' ISBN 0-385-12551-8
Gurney has also appeared in several of his plays including ''The Dining Room'' and most notably ''Love Letters''.
In 2006, Gurney was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Plays

★ ''Ancestral Voices''

★ ''Another Antigone''

★ ''Big Bill''

★ ''Buffalo Gal''

★ ''A Cheever Evening'' (based on stories by John Cheever)

★ ''Darlene''

★ ''The Cocktail Hour''

★ ''Crazy Mary''

★ ''Darlene''

★ ''The Dining Room''

★ ''Far East''

★ ''The Fourth Wall''

★ ''The Golden Age''

★ ''Human Events''

★ ''The Guest Lecturer''

★ ''Indian Blood''

★ ''Later Life''

★ ''The Perfect Party''

★ ''Love Letters''

★ ''Mrs. Farnsworth''

★ ''O Jerusalem''

★ ''The Old Boy''

★ ''Post Mortem''

★ ''The Problem''

★ ''Screen Play''

★ ''Sylvia''

★ ''Sweet Sue''

★ ''The Snow Ball'' (based on his novel) ISBN 0-88184-214-1

★ ''What I Did Last Summer''
many of these plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.

External links

★ Entry at Literary Encyclopedia