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Romulus Zachariah Linney IV [1] (September 21, 1930 – January 15, 2011) [2] was an American playwright and novelist.
15 de ene. de 2011 · Romulus Linney, a playwright who roved along many intellectual paths, exploring the Southern Appalachian culture of his upbringing, refashioning classical works for modern times and adapting...
16 de ene. de 2011 · Romulus Linney, a respected playwright who wrote dozens of plays on a wide variety of subjects over a multi-decade career, and who achieved a different sort of fame in later years as the father...
8 de ene. de 2015 · Romulus Linney, 1930–2011. The playwright who drew on a Southern boyhood. By The Week Staff. last updated 8 January 2015. Though he never became a household name, Romulus Linney’s...
17 de ene. de 2011 · Off Broadway playwright Romulus Linney, who adapted “A Lesson Before Dying” for the stage, died Saturday in Germantown, N.Y., of lung cancer. The father of actress Laura Linney was 80. Based on...
Romulus Linney was the author of three novels, four opera librettos, twenty short stories, and 85 plays which have been staged throughout the United States, in Europe and Asia. His plays include The Sorrows of Frederick, Holy Ghosts, Childe Byron, Heathen Valley, 2, and an adaptation of Ernest L. Gaines’s novel, A Lesson Before Dying , which ...
Romulus Linney, the prolific American playwright, was born on September 21, 1930 in Philadelphia. He was the namesake of his great-grandfather, the Republican Congressman, Romulus Zachariah Linney, a Confederate Army veteran who represented North Carolina's 8th District from 1895-1901.