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A study of the actor, director, playwright and lyricist, Alan Bennett. Peter Wolfe demonstrates that Alan Bennett's success in many spheres was no fluke, and his theatrical eminence has always been accompanied by awards and professional recognition. His play """"Single Spies"""" won the Oliver Award as England's Best Comedy in 1989. The casts of his plays, starting with """"Forty Years On"""" in 1968, have included such luminaries as Sir John Gielgud, Sir Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Alan Bates and Daniel Day Lewis. His screenwriting earned """"The Madness of King George"""" a nomination for an Academy Award. This book seeks to illuminate the writer whose instinct for artistic choices has helped him to succeed on his own terms.

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Peter Wolfe teaches English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is the author of fifteen books, and his shorter pieces have appeared in publications such as the New York Times Book Review, New Republic, and Modern Fiction Studies. His book Alarms and Epitaphs: The Art of Eric Ambler won the first annual Armchair Detective Award for the best scholarly work in the mystery genre for 1993.

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