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LIFE of the PLAYWRIGHT (Robert Anderson)
Robert Anderson, a native New Yorker, was born in 1917, in New York. He has written plays for the stage, screen, radio and television in addition to two novels. He educated at Harvard University, Anderson's first play was Tea and Sympathy. Some of his screenplays are as follws; Until They Sail, which received an Academy Award nomination for best screenplay in 1957, Sand Pebbles (1966), The Nun's Story, is nominated for an Academy Award in, and I Never Sang for My Father which received an Academy Award nomination and was the winner of the Writers' Guild of America Award in 1970.
Robert Anderson was nominated for the Writer's Guild Award for his television drama, The Patricia Neal Story, in 1980, and was elected to The Theatre Hall of Fame. He received "The William Inge Award for Lifetime Achievement" in 1985.
In 1991, two of Anderson's works were televised: The Last Act Is A Solo, winner of an Ace Award, and Absolute Strangers. He is the......

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