| LC control no. | n 50020353 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3557.U82 |
| Personal name heading | Gurney, A. R. (Albert Ramsdell), 1930-2017 |
| 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 country | United States |
| Birth date | 1930-11-01 |
| Death date | 2017-06-13 |
| Place of birth | Buffalo (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Drama Fiction |
| Profession or occupation | Dramatists Novelists |
| Special note | One 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 in | Around 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 language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 2017007868 n 93009095 |
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