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In the year 2002, Horton Foote can look back on a remarkable career of more than sixty years in the American theatre beginning in 1938. In 1995 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with The Young Man from Atlanta, the climax to a series of his many works for the theatre. Although other media have their appeal and he would not willingly give them up, Foote is happiest when writing for the stage, which is his most enduring love. Foote's work has been awarded many prizes. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize and others, this productive writer has won the following awards: the Academy Award for the adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), the Academy Award for the original screenplay of Tender Mercies (1982), the Academy Award nomination for the screenplay adaptation of The Trip to Bountiful (1985), and the William Inge Lifetime Achievement Award (1989). This playwright has consistently shown his unflagging compassion for others. Describing the Southeast Texas setting of an early play, he said it was true to the towns he had known: "It has its tragedies and comedies, its rich and poor, its great virtues and its terrible injustices. It has my heart." 1 Although many people have written a

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Author

Charles S Watson, 1931-

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292719354

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Biography