U.S. playwright Lanford Wilson dies at 73

Playwright Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Talley’s Folly” and other titles such as “The Hot L Baltimore,” has died after a long illness, at 73, his talent agent said on Thursday.
His friend and collaborator Marshall W. Mason posted a notice on Facebook saying “it was a peaceful, painless end.”
The playwright was a prominent member of the Off-Broadway theater scene and a founding member in 1969 of New York City’s Circle Repertory Company, where he was a resident playwright until 1995.
“Talley’s Folly,” part of a trilogy of plays about different generations of a Missouri family, earned Wilson the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1980.
He received numerous other awards throughout his long career including two New York Drama Critics Circle honors. His other works for the stage included “5th of July,” “Burn This” and “The Mound Builders.”
Wilson was a member of the Dramatists Guild Council and he had lived in Sag Harbor, New York, since 1970.
Source: in.movies.yahoo.com