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Playwright and novelist Romulus Linney was born on September 21, 1930, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The only child of Dr. Romulus "Zach" Linney III and his wife Maitland (nee Thompson), Linney was the great-grandson of North Carolina Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney I. Linney spent much of his childhood in Boone, North Carolina, and Madison, Tennessee, but moved with his mother to ...
Romulus Linney’s father Zach died of throat cancer when Linney was just thirteen years old. Pictured at left is Linney with his father and Zach’s bird dog puppies. Zach’s attachment to his bird dogs informed Linney’s understanding of the character of Frederick the Great, the subject of his first play The Sorrows of Frederick .
Linney's critical recognition includes a 1974 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in playwriting, a 1980 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 1984 Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a 1986 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. Linney also received the coveted Obie Award in 1980 for his play "Tennessee".
Laura Linney. Nació el 5 de febrero de 1964 en Nueva York (Estados Unidos) Biografía. Mide 1’70. Laura Legett Linney es una actriz estadounidense nacida en la ciudad de Nueva York. Su padre es el dramaturgo Romulus Linney y su madre la enfermera Ann Legett Perse. Un año después de su nacimiento, en 1965, Romulus y Ann se divorciaron.
“Mr. Linney continues to be one of our most perceptive chroniclers of the folkways of rural America, finding humanity and nobility in the most remote of places.” –Mel Gussow, New York Times“Linney’s words do it all, summoning up vistas of scary beauty and passions of elemental force.” –David Richards,Washington Post“His output was dazzling in its variety and exceptional for its ...
Books. Holy Ghosts: A Play in Two Acts. Romulus Linney. Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1989 - Drama - 59 pages. THE STORY: Seeking to retrieve his runaway wife (and the possessions she has taken with her), Coleman Shedman arrives at the rural meeting house of a southern pentecostal sect with a lawyer in tow. But his wife, Nancy, is unwilling to ...
Romulus Linney. Dramatists Play Service Inc, 1988 - Drama - 55 pages. THE STORY: Set in the 1860s, the action of the play centers on the desire of the Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina to bring the word of God to a valley so remote and untamed that brothers marry sisters and the people live lives of brutal violence. Preview this book ».
