William Inge attended Independence Community College and graduated from the University of Kansas in 1935 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and Drama.
16 Facts About William Inge
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William Inge began as a drama critic at the St Louis Star-Times in 1943.
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In 1953, William Inge received a Pulitzer Prize for Picnic, a play based on women he had known as a small child:.
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William Inge invites her into the apartment and, without warning, kills her as the curtains close.
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The production moved to Los Angeles and opened just days after William Inge died by suicide.
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The Last Pad is one of three of William Inge's plays that either have openly gay characters or address homosexuality directly.
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Summer Brave, produced posthumously on Broadway in 1975, is William Inge's reworking of Picnic, as he noted:.
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About two dozen unperformed plays by William Inge began receiving wider attention in 2009.
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In 1961, William Inge won an Academy Award for Splendor in the Grass.
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William Inge made his film debut as a reverend in the film.
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William Inge was unhappy with changes made to his screenplay for Bus Riley's Back in Town, so at his insistence, the writing credit on the film is "Walter Gage".
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In 1963 William Inge met with CBS to consider a one-hour filmed television drama about a family in a Midwestern town.
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William Inge wrote two novels, both set in the fictional town of Freedom, Kansas.
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William Inge died of suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning on June 10,1973 at the Hollywood home he shared with his sister, Helene.
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William Inge donated a total of ten contemporary paintings to the Nelson Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri.
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William Inge is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame, inducted posthumously in 1979.