The Oxford Companion to American Literature | Inge, William
Inge, William( 1913–73), Kansas-born dramatist, whose plays about seemingly ordinary Midwestern people include Farther Off from Heaven (1947); Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), about a drunkard's dreadful marriage; Picnic (1953, Pulitzer Prize), about a simple young girl and boy who entertain fatuous and frustrating dreams of glamorous lives; Bus Stop (1955), depicting a diverse group of snowbound people who represent the varied and fluid society of the U.S.; The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957), a symbolic treatment of loneliness in a family; A Loss of Roses (1959), about the Oedipal relation of a 21-year-old son and his widowed mother; Natural Affection (1963); and Where's Daddy? (1966), a comedy about the quest of a young couple to find values. Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1970) is a novel about a small-town Kansas schoolteacher involved with a black college football player, and...
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