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Gurney, A. R. (Albert Ramsdell), 1930-2017

LC control no.n 50020353
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3557.U82
Personal name headingGurney, A. R. (Albert Ramsdell), 1930-2017
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Variant(s)Gurney, Albert Ramsdell, 1930-2017
Gurney, Albert Ramsdell, 1930-
Gurney, A. R., Jr. (Albert Ramsdell), 1930-2017
Gurney, Pete, 1930-2017
Gurney, Peter, 1930-2017
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1930-11-01
Death date2017-06-13
Place of birthBuffalo (N.Y.)
Place of deathManhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activityDrama Fiction
Profession or occupationDramatists Novelists
Special noteOne item published as Peter Gurney but no suggestion that it represented a separate bibliographic identity from A.R. Gurney
Formerly on undifferentiated name record: n 93009095
Found inAround the world in 80 days: a musical comedy in 2 acts, 1962: title page (Peter Gurney)
His The dining room, c1982: t.p. (A.R. Gurney, Jr.)
The cocktail hour : a comedy, 1989: title page (A.R. Gurney)
A.R. Gurney : a casebook, 2004
Twentieth-Century American dramatists. Fourth series, 2003, viewed via Literature Resource Center website, 7 Mar. 2017: (A(lbert) R(amsdell) Gurney, Jr.; born 1 November 1930 in Buffalo, New York; he soon acquired the nickname "Pete" because he disliked being called "Junior"; lists prolific publications, including just one "Around the world in 80 days" written as Peter Gurney)
Wikipedia, viewed 7 Mar. 2017: under A.R. Gurney (Albert Ramsdell Gurney Jr (born November 1, 1930), sometimes credited as Pete Gurney, is an American playwright, novelist and academic; lists plays; also wrote several novels, including "The Gospel according to Joe")
New York times WWW site, viewed June 15, 2017 (in obituary published June 14: A.R. Gurney; b. Albert Ramsdell Gurney, Nov. 1, 1930, Buffalo; acquired the nickname Pete because his mother liked the sound of it; d. Tuesday [June 13, 2017], Manhattan, aged 86; prolific playwright who dissected the fading folkways of the Northeast's traditional white Anglo-Saxon Protestant society, of which he himself was a member, in plays like The middle ages, The dining room, and The cocktail hour)
Associated languageeng
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