A. R. Gurney  

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Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr. (November 1, 1930 – June 13, 2017), as pen name A.R. Gurney (sometimes credited as Pete Gurney) was an American playwright, novelist and academic. He is known for works including The Dining Room (1982), Sweet Sue (1986/7), The Cocktail Hour (1988), but was probably best known for his Pulitzer Prize nominated play Love Letters. His series of plays about upper-class WASP life in contemporary America have been called "penetratingly witty studies of the WASP ascendancy in retreat."

Plays

• Ancestral Voices
• Another Antigone
• Big Bill
• Buffalo Gal
• A Cheever Evening (based on stories by John Cheever)
• Children
• The Cocktail Hour
• The Comeback
• Crazy Mary
• Darlene
• The David Show
• The Dining Room
• Far East
• The Fourth Wall
• The Golden Age
• The Golden Fleece
• The Guest Lecturer
• Human Events
• Indian Blood
• Labor Day
• Later Life
• The Perfect Party
• The Love Course
• Love Letters
• The Middle Ages
• Mrs. Farnsworth
• O Jerusalem
• The Old Boy
• The Old One-Two
• The Open Mind
• Overtime
• Post Mortem
• The Problem
• Richard Cory
• Scenes from American Life
• Screen Play
• Sylvia
• Sweet Sue
• The Snow Ball (based on his novel) ISBN 0-88184-214-1
• The Wayside Motor Inn
• What I Did Last Summer