Biography and Notes (further contributions welcome) :
Playwright, TV scriptwriter, author, editor, and teacher. Winner of an ABC television Award in conjunction with the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conf., 1981. His TV script Benny's Place (1980) was selected by Judith Christ of TV Guide as one of the 10 Best TV Movies of 1982, and was nominated for a Humanitas Prize, an NAACP Image Award, and a WGA TV/Radio Writing Award. Born in Dorchester Co., SC; grew up in Coatesville, PA. Educated at Dickenson Coll., Carlisle, PA (A.B. in political science/ English, 1971) and Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore (M.A. in creative writing, 1973). Instr. of English at Dickenson Coll., 1973-75; instr. of fiction and playwriting, the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts, 1976-79; asst. prof. of English, Community Coll. of Pennsylvania, 1975; writer-in-residence, Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, MA, 1979-80; William Neal Reynolds Visiting Prof. and playwright-in-residence, Univ. of North Carolina/Chapel Hill, 1983. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in Journal of Black Poetry, Obsidian, Poetry Now, Salome, Shenandoah, Trellis, and William and Mary Review. Feature editor, Black America Magazine, 1976-79; editor, Pennsylvania English, 1975-78; and coeditor, The New Heroin Addict (project of the National Inst. of Drug Abuse, in progress, 1983). Organizational memberships include American Federation of Teachers, WGA/East, Coll. English Assn., Pennsylvania Coll. English Assn., ACLU, and NAACP. Other awards (not mentioned above) include Fellow, Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conf., 1981; Playwriting Fellow, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; Pennsylvania Council on the Humanities playwriting residencies at Wayne Middle School and Charlestown School, 1985- 86. Address (in 1988): 421 E. Woodlawn St., Philadelphia, PA 19144.
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