Dec 17, 2009

A. R. Gurney, Jr. | A. R. Gurney, Jr.

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A. R. Gurney, Jr., has written for television and film as well as for the stage; in addition, he has published the novels The Gospel According to Joe (1974), Entertaining Strangers (1977), and The Snow Ball (1984).

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A. J. Gurney, Jr., is often labeled the dramatist of the WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) enclave. He laughs at, ridicules, even satirizes WASPs but at the same time understands them and in some ways sympathizes with them. Being born and reared a WASP, he knows his material. His characters live...

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