Picnic: A Summer Romance in Three Acts
New York: Random House, (1953).
Price: $125.00
Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated with black and white stills from the production. Gray boards with pictorial onlay on cover. Slight bumping at the foot of the spine, else fine in a very good dust jacket with small chips, and toning on the spine and edge of rear panel. The play was produced by The Theatre Guild and Joshua Logan, and premiered at the Music Box Theatre on February 19, 1953, featuring Paul Newman in his Broadway debut. Winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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William Inge
birth name: William Motter Inge
born: 5/3/1913
died: 6/10/1973
Biography
American playwright best known for his plays Come Back, Little Sheba (1950; film, 1952); PICNIC (1953; film, 1956), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize; and BUS STOP (1955; film, 1956). Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore