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\n<\/span><\/p>\nPulitzer prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, best known for such plays as Talley’s Folly and Burn This, has died aged 73.<\/p>\n
The writer passed away at a New Jersey hospital on Wednesday after a long illness, his agent said.<\/p>\n
Wilson wrote 17 full-length plays and more than 30 one-acts.<\/p>\n
He was awarded the Pulitzer in 1980 for Talley’s Folly, part of a trilogy of plays about several generations of a Missouri family.<\/p>\n
He died on the eve of a new staging of his 1973 work The Hot L Baltimore at Chicago’s Steppenwolf theatre.<\/p>\n
Tina Landau, the play’s director, said Wilson’s “tremendous spirit is with us in the theatre” and that Thursday’s performance would be in his honour.<\/p>\n
The writer was a prominent member of the Off-Broadway theatre scene and was one of four founders of The Circle Repertory Company in New York.<\/p>\n
Marshall W Mason. a friend and collaborator, posted a notice on Facebook saying Wilson’s death was “a peaceful, painless end”.<\/p>\n
“Words cannot express the loss we all will feel,” he added. “But we must be grateful for the bountiful beauty he bestowed upon us.”<\/p>\n
Lanford’s Burn This was staged in London in 1990 with John Malkovich and Juliet Stevenson.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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