Sackler, Howard - Introduction

Sackler, Howard 1929–

Sackler is an American dramatist and screenwriter whose best-known play, The Great White Hope, explores race relations in a dramatization of the tragic but flamboyant career of America's first black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson. Sackler won the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and a Tony Award for this play. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 61-64.)