Venerable British Playwright Peter Nichols, Known for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Dies at Age 92 by Beth Stevens

British playwright Peter Nichols, who is best known for his play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, has died at the age of 92, according to his agent, Alan Brodie. He died on Saturday, September 7 in Oxford. Nichols' career was launched in 1959 when he won a BBC Bristol television playwright contest for his work A Walk on the Grass. This led to several other scripts and eventually to his first stage play, the 1967 hit A…

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