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Name: William (Motter) Inge
Variant Name: William (Motter) Inge, William Motter Inge, Walter Gage
Birth Date: May 3, 1913
Death Date: June 10, 1973
Place of Birth: Independence, Kansas
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of William (Motter) Inge
8,971 words, approx. 30 pages
William Inge was one of the most successful American playwrights during the 1950s. No American writer of serious drama has matched his unbroken series of critical and popular successes during that decade. Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), Picnic (1953),...
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Biography of William (Motter) Inge
8,256 words, approx. 28 pages
William Motter Inge was one of America's most successful playwrights during the 1950s. No American writer of serious drama has matched his unbroken series of critical and popular successes during that decade. Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), Picnic...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Inge, William
228 words, approx. 1 pages
(born May 3, 1913, Independence, Kan., U.S.—died June 10, 1973, Hollywood Hills, Calif.) American playwright best known for his plays Come Back, Little Sheba (1950; filmed 1952); Picnic (1953; filmed 1956), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize; and...
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Inge, William (Motter)
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(born May 3, 1913, Independence, Kan., U.S.—died June 10, 1973, Hollywood Hills, Calif.) U.S. playwright and screenwriter. He worked as a schoolteacher (1937–49) and moonlighted as drama editor of the St. Louis Star-Times (1943–46)....
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William Inge Information
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William Motter Inge (May 3 1913(1913-05-03) – June 1 1973 (aged 60)) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. In the early 1950s, he had a string of memorable...


News and Journals
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Grand Open-ing For Williams Sisters
08/26/1999: 615 words, approx. 2 pages
JOHN BRENNAN, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-26-1999 GRAND OPEN-ING FOR WILLIAMS SISTERS By JOHN BRENNAN, Staff Writer Date: 08-26-1999, Thursday Section: SPORTS Edition: All Editions -- 2 Star B, 2 Star P, 1 Star Early NEW YORK -- The...
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American Theatre
Splendor in the grass: a quirky festival celebrates theatre--and William Inge--in the heart of rural Kansas. (Connections).
07/01/2002: 1,662 words, approx. 6 pages
Once we find the fruits of success," the playwright William Inge wrote ruefully in 1958, "the taste is nothing like what we had anticipated." Life was no picnic for the author of Picnic, who anticipated--and endured--many emotional ups and downs before he...
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AP News
Songwriter Ron Miller dies at age 74
7/24/2007: 325 words, approx. 1 pages
Songwriter Ron Miller, whose tunes included pop classics "Touch Me in the Morning" and "For Once in My Life," has died, his daughter said.Miller died Monday of cardiac arrest at Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center after a long battle with emphysema and cancer, Lisa Dawn...
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AP Features
Thursday, May 3
4/26/2007: 823 words, approx. 3 pages
Today is Thursday, May 3, the 123rd day of 2007. There are 242 days left in the year.Highlights in history on this date:1494 - Columbus discovers Jamaica.1660 - Peace of Olivia is signed, ending war between Brandenburg, Poland, Austria and Sweden.1765 - The first U.S....
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Georges-michel Sarotte
1,998 words, approx. 7 pages
The similarities in characters and situations in [the work of William Inge and Tennessee Williams] are obvious: sexual fantasies, frustrated women, the devirilization of studs—"homosexual spite"—homosexual characters studied covertly etc. However, Inge's plays add to the list of ruses the homosexual dramatist has been forced to employ in depicting his own experience, particularly with regard to "virile friend-ship," the caustic description of heterosexual rel...
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Critical Essay by Gerald Weales
1,500 words, approx. 5 pages
Until the appearance of A Loss of Roses (1959), Inge had a reputation as a playwright whose work did not fail. Following the modest success of Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), Inge's next three plays, Picnic (1953), Bus Stop (1955), and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957), established him as one of Broadway's most successful playwrights; because of our strange belief in the corollary relationship between income and reputation, Inge also came to be accepted as one of America's leadin...
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Critical Essay by Ima Honaker Herron
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The successful playwright, whose dramatic scope is never outwardly wide, whose characters are as commonplace as old shoes, and whose subject matter rarely rises above the ordinary routine of small-town life, necessarily must possess compensating gifts. William Motter Inge … has an abundance of such gifts. Possessed of extraordinary perception, sensitivity, and compassion, he has the rare and admirable trait of expressing the frustrations and dilemmas of "the so-called little man without being ...


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