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NEW YORK — Lanford Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of such plays as “The Hot L Baltimore,” “Burn This,” “Fifth of July” and “Talley’s Folly,” has died. He was 73.
The Steppenwolf Theatre said Thursday that Wilson died Wednesday at a long-term acute-care facility in Wayne, N.J. The playwright, who had been a longtime resident of New York’s Sag Harbor, died on the eve of the Chicago company’s first preview production of a staging of “The Hot L Baltimore.”
Wilson was one of four founders of The Circle Repertory Company in New York.
He was nominated for Tony Awards for “Angels Fall,” “Talley’s Folly” and “Fifth of July,” and won the Pulitzer for drama in 1980 for “Talley’s Folly.”
