No googling or using references, etc. Who is the only American writer to win an Academy award, a Tony award, and the Pulitzer prize. I didn’t know and wondered if you did–KSH.
Today's Quiz
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Edward Albee?
Arthur Miller?
Al Gore?
Harper Lee?
Horton Foote?
I think it must be Tony Kushner (Angels in America).
John Steinbeck?
Arthur Miller.
I’m with Irenaeus (but my second guess is Dalton Trumbo).
Did Horton Foote ever get a Tony? He should have, but i don’t think he did . . .
William Faulkner?
Thomas Wolfe?
Do composers count as writers? Because I know that Stephen Sondheim has all those awards.
Well, Kendall…..????
Well, what do you know! I had no idea that Sondheim had won an Academy Award. (Tony of course, and Pulitzer sounds right for SUNDAY IN THE PARK). But he is such a theatrical phenomenom I couldn’t think of what he’d win an AA for.
But unless Kendall had someone else in mind, it looks like Tawser wins Kendall’s contest for the day. 🙂
My guess would’ve been Horton Foote as well…
I’ve been a Sondheim fanatic since high school, but it’s a lonely fascination. Despite all his accolades, almost no one outside a restricted circle of theater buffs has heard of him. Everybody has heard of Andrew Lloyd Webber, but Sondheim? Who?
Tawser,
Andrew Lloyd Who??? (GRIN!!)
Mel Brooks
PASSION (1994) was his last great work. I don’t think he’s done anything of great worth since, which is sad. But not his fault — everybody is allowed to retire at some point.
I like SUNDAY and others a lot, but my favorites are PACIFIC OVERTURES and SWEENEY TODD.
I think a lot of people know Sondheim’s work even when they don’t know the name; I am sure all the folks on this thread remember his first big triumph — which was writing the lyrics to WEST SIDE STORY.
Jon, I would love to see a staging of Pacific Overtures, but probably never will. That is probably my favorite of all his scores.
William Faulkner?
I apologize for not posting until now, I have been on the road today. I appreciate people not looking it up and honoring my request. No right answers thus far.
Lillian Hellman?
William Shatner
Here is a really out there guess ” Dr. Seuss”
No, y’all–when it comes to a question like this, Pulitzer, Oscar, and Tony, you should probably think in terms of playwright/screenwriter–Miller is a good guess, but when I read this question I did guess right the first time(I think)–with a body of work including Streetcar, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and the Glass Menagerie, it would have to be Tennessee Williams.
If I have guessed right I probably have simply because I’m a movie trivia freak.
All blessings,
GiD
Robert Penn Warren?
Neil Simon?
Miller and Williams are certainly good guesses. Not right, however.
It is a southern writer–to give a hint.
Flannery O’Connor
#30, the hard part there is something like the Tony award, because she is a short story writer who also wrote some novels.
You all are at least making me feel a bit better that I didn’t know. The question really is a lot harder than it seems.
Larry McMurtry
I’ll guess before I do the research so I maintain some integrity here:
Truman Capote?
“In Cold Blood” garnered many awards, although I could be wrong because of the Tony criterion.
John Berendt?
Miss Piggy?
A great guess Mark in #32, he has won a pulitzer and an academy award. But not a Tony (though of course in his case it is possible).
Could it be TEC’s own Louie Crew? Just kidding.
Lorraine Hansberry
Forest Gump.
One last guess. Michael Shaara. I may be off on the name I am thinking of the guy who wrote Killer Angels.
Emma Thompson?
Pat Conroy?
This is from hubby. James Agee
and finally from daughter> Lillian Hellman
Margaret Mitchell – Gone with the Wind?
Alan Jay Lerner? I just saw My Fair Lady – I think he won something for that.
Last guess before I turn in – Oscar Hammerstein?
Auuuggghhh. I just googled the person, and talk about hidden in plain sight.
Very nice mental stretching exercise, Kendall.
T.S. Eliot?
Ernest Hemingway!
Lucille Ball? Or Sidney Poitier?
Tennessee Williams?
Thornton Wilder?
[i] say I, frantically casting about in plain view. [/i]
T.S. Eliot would have been my guess, too, Irenaeus, but I’m not sure he’s a Southern writer.
I, too, “Googled” and no, I wouldn’t have been able to guess. 🙁
Harold Urey (may be mis-spelled)-Driving Miss Daisy?
james Agee?
F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Tom Wolf?
Alice Walker?
Now that I bothered to read the other postings, I see that my responses couldn’t be right. I did cheat and found someone who I think fits the bill but is not a Southern author. Does that mean more than one author fits the bill?
Alfred Fox Uhry is the answer. Congrats to #55.
John Patrick Shanley also seems to have won all three awards.
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/2005/9/1/alum_john_patrick_shanley_wins_tony_pulitzer_prize_critics_circle
Thanks, Dave in #60.
I figured out Shanley last night, but didn’t want to write in after doing research!! So there must be two writers to have won all three awards, and Shanley is not a Southerner; he’s from the Bronx.
🙂
Good trivia to know…
Driving Miss Daisy is one of my favorite Movies. I cried at the ending in the dining room!!
It gives us all hope that people of different races and faiths can get along without compromising.
Miss Daisy did attend the Christian Funeral for her cook and Hoke did drive Miss Daisy to temple but neither ever compromised their own beliefs. Let them be an example to us all!!