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Alfred Fox Uhry (born December 3, 1936) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has received an Academy Award , two Tony Awards and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for dramatic writing for Driving Miss Daisy .
Nov 5, 2019 · Alfred Uhry’s moving, Pulitzer-Prize-winning play “Driving Miss Daisy” remains an important commentary on race relations in America, hailed for its heartwarming use of comedy and friendship to reveal the common humanity between an elderly Jewish widow and her African-American chauffeur. This production visits The Smith Center on January ...
Dec 3, 2005 · Alfred Fox Uhry was born in Atlanta on December 3, 1936, to a prosperous family of German- Jewish descent. He attended Druid Hills High School, and after graduation he attended Brown University in Rhode Island, where he received a degree in English and drama in 1958. Uhry then relocated to New York City, where he taught English at the Calhoun ...
Genre. Drama. Driving Miss Daisy is a play by American playwright Alfred Uhry, about the relationship of an elderly Southern Jewish woman, Daisy Werthan, and her African-American chauffeur, Hoke Coleburn, from 1948 to 1973. The play was the first in Uhry's Atlanta Trilogy, which deals with Jewish residents of that city in the early 20th century.
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Alfred Uhry. Writer: Driving Miss Daisy. Alfred Uhry was born on 12 December 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Mystic Pizza (1988) and Rich in Love (1992).
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- December 12, 1936
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In Driving Miss Daisy. …Miss Daisy, one-act play by Alfred Uhry, produced and published in 1987. The play won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for drama. It is the story of a friendship that develops over a 25-year period between Daisy Werthan, an elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta, and Hoke Coleburn, the African American…. Read More.
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Alfred Uhry was born on 12 December 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Mystic Pizza (1988) and Broadway on Showtime (1979). He was previously married to Joanna "Jolly" Kellogg Uhry.
