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born: 04/13/1937
died: 03/23/2011
born as: Lanford Wilson

American playwright, a pioneer of the Off-Off Broadway and regional theater movements. His plays are known for experimental staging, simultaneous dialogue, and deferred character exposition. He won a 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Talley's Folley (1979). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature