Pulitzer-Prize Winning Playwright Lanford Wilson Dies at 73
Lanford Wilson, a celebrated American playwright considered one of the founders of the off-off-Broadway movement, died on March 24 at age 73. Wilson was born in Lebanon, Missouri, and set many of his plays in the Midwest. He began his writing career in the hotbed of 1960s New York, presenting one-act plays like The Madness of Lady Bright at the Greenwich Village haunt Caffe Cino. He soon became a staple of the dow…