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The Young Man From Atlanta by Horton Foote

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Author Biography

Name: Horton Foote
Variant Name: Albert Horton Foote, (Albert) Horton Foote, (Jr.)
Birth Date: March 14, 1916
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Horton Foote
1036 words, approx. 3.5 pages
Horton Foote is a prolific and successful writer of drama for the theater, the movies, and television. Six of his plays have received New York productions; at least six of his screenplays have been filmed; another film was made from one of his works; and...
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Biography of Horton Foote
5918 words, approx. 19.7 pages
Horton Foote's long, distinguished career in American playwriting started in the late 1930s and has continued without interruption to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Although he has become known for the variety of his works for the media--incl...


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The Young Man From Atlanta Information
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The Young Man From Atlanta is a play by Horton Foote. It won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In this play Foote revived characters which had been in his The Orphan's Home cycle of nine plays. Will Kidder — 64 years old in this play — was in his...


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The New Leader
The Young Man from Atlanta.(Longacre Theater, New York, NY) (theater reviews)
03/24/1997: 392 words, approx. 1 pages
As for Will, is he a sensitive soul locked in a massive, suffering body? Or is he really a loutish Texan who drove his kid to misery? And what of Lily Dale? Is she the long-suffering soul she appears to be? Or is...
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The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
The Young Man from Atlanta.(Longacre Theatre, New York, New York) (theater reviews)
04/29/1997: 480 words, approx. 2 pages
He was 37, unmarried, unathletic, and very close to his mother. He roomed with a younger man, to whom he gave his sizable nest egg for the purchase of "nice things." As a child he was considered "pretty." Enough to trigger your gaydar?...
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AP News
Greed threatens a Texas family's ties
9/27/2007: 487 words, approx. 2 pages
There's nothing like a little greed to exacerbate family relations.Money can pull people apart, and the folks at the center of Horton Foote's gently humorous domestic comedy, "Dividing the Estate," suffer from some serious agitation when it comes to their dwindling inheritance.But the play, which...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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The Young Man from Atlanta
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[For many years the chief film critic of The New York Times, Canby is also a novelist, playwright, and theater critic. In the following, he offers a favorable review of The Young Man from Atlanta, noting Foote's focus on the American dream, homosexuality, grief, and family dynamics.]
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The Young Man from Atlanta
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[Feingold is an American critic and educator. In the excerpt below, he questions the validity of Foote's portrait of contemporary American society in The Young Man from Atlanta.]
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The Young Man from Atlanta
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[Christiansen is an American journalist, editor, and critic who frequently writes about Chicago's artistic community. In the following review, he praises Foote's use of characterization and dialogue, and discusses his treatment of family in The Young Man from Atlanta.]
 


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