A.R. Gurney
Died on June 13, 2017 at age 86
A prolific playwright, Mr. Gurney dissected the fading folkways of the Northeast’s traditional white Anglo-Saxon Protestant society, of which he himself was a member, in plays like “The Middle Ages,” “The Dining Room” and “The Cocktail Hour.“
Notable Deaths 2017
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