A. R. Gurney

Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr (born November 1, 1930), sometimes credited as Pete Gurney, is an American playwright, novelist and academic. He is known for works including The Dining Room (1982), Sweet Sue (1986/7), Love Letters (1988), and The Cocktail Hour (1988). His series of plays about upper-class WASP life in contemporary America have been called "penetratingly witty studies of the WASP ascendancy in retreat." Wikipedia

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