Sackler, Howard
Sackler, Howard( 1929–82),New York-born dramatist, director, and film writer, whose first major play, The Great White Hope (1967, published 1968), about Jack Johnson, the first black heavy-weight boxing champion of the world, won a Pulitzer Prize. Earlier he had staged Mr. Welk and Jersey Jim (1960); Skippy, also titled The Yellow Loves (1966); and The Nine O'Clock Mail (1965), a quartet of one-act plays about disparate people's unhappy, searching lives, produced together and printed as A Few Enquiries (1970). Uriel Acosta (1954) and The Pastime of Monsieur Robert (1966) are other early plays. Want My Shepherd (1954) prints his poems.
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