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Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett has been one of England's leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His work includes the Talking Heads television series and the stage plays Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, and The Madness of King George III, which was made into a major motion picture. His play The History Boys won six Tony Awards, including best play, in 2006. His other books include the critically acclaimed collected writings Untold Stories and Writing Home, Smut (short stories), The Uncommon Reader (a novella), and many more.


Alan Bennett: The Time I Saw T.S. Eliot on a Train Platform

The Legendary Playwright on His Brush with the Great Poet
November 10, 2017  By Alan Bennett
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