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Cullinan, Thomas

LC control no.n 50019773
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3553.U33
Personal name headingCullinan, Thomas
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1919
Death date1995-06-11
Place of birthCleveland (Ohio)
Place of deathCleveland Heights (Ohio)
Field of activityFiction Drama Television authorship
Profession or occupationNovelists Dramatists Television writers
Found inHis The beguiled, 1966.
Cleveland Arts Prize website, September 22, 2014: archive > Thomas P. Cullinan (Thomas P. Cullinan, Novelist and Playwright, 1919-1995; born in Cleveland of Irish Catholic background and educated at Cathedral Latin High School (class of 1938))
   <http://clevelandartsprize.org/awardees/thomas_cullinan.html>
New York times, June 17, 1995, viewed online September 22, 2014 (Thomas P. Cullinan, a novelist, playwright and television writer, died here on Sunday [June 11, 1995] at a theater where he was serving as the judge of a high school play-writing festival. He was 75. Mr. Cullinan's 1966 novel about the Civil War, "The Beguiled," was made into a movie, released in 1971, that starred Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page. Among his other novels are "The Besieged" (1970), "The Eighth Sacrament" (1977) and "The Bedeviled" (1978))
   <http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/17/obituaries/thomas-p-cullinan-novelist-75.html>
Los Angeles times, June 22, 1995, viewed online September 22, 2014 (Thomas P. Cullinan, 75, a novelist, playwright and television writer. Cullinan wrote the book "The Beguiled," which later was made into a movie starring Clint Eastwood. The writer's play "Mrs. Lincoln" ran for three months at the Cleveland Play House and was performed in New York, Chicago and other cities. He also wrote a weekly program, "Breakthrough," for Westinghouse-owned KYW Channel 3 that was syndicated on other Westinghouse stations. It dramatized the lives of great scientists and scientific discoveries. The Ford Foundation awarded Cullinan a grant to a symposium in Berlin in 1964. His one-act play, "The Sentinel," was produced there. He received a second Ford grant in 1966 and spent a year at the University of Utah, where his "Madigan's Wedding" was performed. On June 11 [1995] in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, of an apparent heart attack.)
   <http://articles.latimes.com/1995-06-22/news/mn-16052_1_thomas-p-cullinan>
Associated languageeng