Ray Lawler (Critical Survey of Drama)

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Primarily known for his playwrighting, Ray Lawler has written and adapted works for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Achievements

Ray Lawler won first prize in a minor play competition in Melbourne, Australia, for his Cradle of Thunder and wrote nine plays before becoming internationally famous with Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. He shared first prize, worth about two hundred dollars, for Summer of the Seventeenth Doll in a competition sponsored by the Playwrights Advisory Board in 1955. The Doll, as it is...

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