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John Frankenheimer directed All Fall Down (1962), Inge's screenplay adaptation of the novel by James Leo Herlihy. Inge was unhappy with changes made to his screenplay for Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965), so at his insistence, the writing credit on the film is "Walter Gage".
May 1, 2012 · Inge never wrote anything about being gay, though his later works—such as the one-act unproduced play “Boy in the Basement” and the screenplay for Bus Riley Is Back in Town (1965), written under the pseudonym William Gage—had gay male characters, albeit repressed ones.
Novels. Inge wrote two novels, both set in the fictional town of Freedom, Kansas. In Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1970), high-school Latin teacher Evelyn Wyckoff loses her job because she has an affair with the school's black janitor.
Jan 4, 2005 · This close study of Inge's work focuses particularly on his technique of "gendermandering," patterns of gender-role reversals which Inge exploits not only for dramatic effect but also to subvert social expectations.
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Dramas of American playwright William Motter Inge explored the expectations and fears of small-town Midwesterners; his play Picnic (1953) won a Pulitzer Prize. Works of this novelist typically feature solitary protagonists, encumbered with strained sexual relations.
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William Inge was fundamentally a dramatist. Atlantic/Little, Brown published two of his novels, Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1970) and My Son Is a Splendid Driver (1971).
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“ordinary people.” This is true of his plays and two novels: Good Luck, Miss Wykoff (1970) and My Son is a Splendid Driver (1971). In defending Inge against negative criticism shortly after the playwright’s death, Harold Clurman captures this essence of Inge’s work in a 1974 review in The Nation (Voss 274): “Inge was the dramatist of the
