The playwright Lanford Wilson passed away at age 73, respectable.
Biography - A Short Wiki
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright who wrote Lemon Sky, Burn This, and Angels Fall.
He worked as a riveter in the Ryan Aircraft Plant, while studying Art and Art History at San Diego State College.
He won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and the Obie Award for his 1973 play The Hot I Baltimore.
How did Lanford Wilson die?
Complications from pneumonia caused Lanford Wilson's death in 2011.
Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose work — earthy, realist, greatly admired, widely performed — centered on the sheer ordinariness of marginality, died on Thursday in Wayne, N.J. He was 73 and lived in Sag Harbor, on Long Island. The cause was complications of pneumonia, said Marshall W.
| Cause of death | Complications from pneumonia |
|---|---|
| Age of death | 73 years |
| Profession | Playwright |
| Birthday | April 13, 1937 |
| Death date | March 24, 2011 |
| Place of death | Wayne, New Jersey, United States |
| Place of burial | N/A |
Quotes
"I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened."
Lanford Wilson
"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."
Lanford Wilson
"But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce."
Lanford Wilson
