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Robert Anderson

 
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  • Born: 1917
  • Birthplace: New York, NY

Robert Anderson, a native New Yorker, has written plays for the stage, screen, radio and television in addition to two novels. Educated at Harvard University (magna cum laude), Anderson's first play was Tea and Sympathy. Anderson's screenplays include Until They Sail, which received an Academy Award nomination for best screenplay in 1957, Sand Pebbles (1966), The Nun's Story, 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 author of two novels, After and Getting Up and Going Home.

Most Famous Works

    Plays:
  • Tea and Sympathy (1953)
  • Silent Night, Lonely Night (1960)
  • The Days Between (1965)
  • You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running (1967)
  • I Never Sang For My Father (1968)
  • The Last Act is a Solo (1991)
    • Novels:
  • After
  • Getting up and Going Home (1978)
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1953Tea and Sympathy. Anderson achieves his greatest success for this drama set in a New England prep school. It deals with a sensitive adolescent who is shunned as a homosexual and then befriended and sexually initiated by the wife of the school's headmaster. Anderson served as a naval intelligence officer in the Pacific during the war and wrote his first play, Come Marching Home (1945), aboard ship. His other works include The Eden Rose (1948) and All Summer Long (1951).
1967You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running. Anderson gains his biggest commercial success with this collection of one-act dramas exploring topics such as gender assumptions, marital relationships, and the connection between memory and experience. It would be followed by a second collection of one-act plays, Solitaire/Double Solitaire: the first shows life in a dystopian future; the second presents relationships among three married couples.
1968I Never Sang for My Father. Anderson's autobiographical drama depicting a son's struggle to become reconciled with his dying father manages only a modest run of 124 performances. Anderson, however, would win an Academy Award for his screenplay for the 1976 film adaptation.

Wikipedia: Robert Anderson (author)
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Robert Anderson (7 January 1750 – 20 February 1830) was a Scottish author and critic.

He was born at Carnwath, Lanarkshire. He studied first divinity and then medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and subsequently, after some experience as a surgeon, took his M.D. at the University of St Andrews in 1778. He began to practise as a physician at Alnwick in Northumberland, but he became financially independent by his marriage with the daughter of John Gray, and abandoned his profession for a literary life in Edinburgh.

For several years his attention was occupied with his edition of The Works of the British Poets, with Prefaces Biographical and Critical (14 vols. 8vo, Edin., 1792-1807). His other publications were:

  • The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D., with Memoirs of his Life and Writings (Edin., 1796)
  • Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., with Critical Observations on his Works (Edin., 1815)
  • The Works of John Moore, M.D., with Memoirs of his Life and Writings (Edin., 7 vols., 1820)
  • The Grave and other Poems, by Robert Blair; to which are prefixed some Account of his Life and Observations on his Writings (Edin., 1826).

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