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1961–1962 Obie Awards

Best American PlayFrank D. Gilroy, Who'll Save the Plowboy?Best MusicalFly Blackbird, C. Jackson, James Hatch and Jerome EskowBest Foreign PlaySamuel Beckett, Happy Days (Walter Kerr…

1959–1960 Obie Awards

Best New PlayJack Gelber, The ConnectionBest All-Around ProductionThe ConnectionBest Foreign PlayJean Genet, The BalconyDistinguished PlaysEdward Albee, The Zoo StorySamuel Beckett, Krapp's…

Gao Xingjian

(Encyclopedia) Gao XingjianGao Xingjiangouˈ shĭingˈjyänˈ [key], 1940–, Chinese-French novelist and playwright, b. Ganzhou. He earned (1962) a degree in French in Beijing and embarked upon a literary…

1972–1973 Obie Awards

Best American PlayJoseph A. Walker, The River NigerLanford Wilson, The Hot L BaltimoreBest Foreign PlaySamuel Beckett, Not IPeter Handke, KasparDistinguished PlaysJ.E. Gaines, What if It Had…

1957–1958 Obie Awards

Best Play (Adaptation)Boris Tumarin and Jack Sydow, The Brothers KaramazovArthur MillerArchive PhotosBest RevivalArthur Miller, The CrucibleBest One-Act PlayNeil McKenzie, Guests of the…

1963–1964 Obie Awards

Best PlaySamuel Beckett, PlayBest American PlayLe Roi Jones, DutchmanBest Production (Play)The BrigBest Production (Musical)What HappenedDistinguished PlaysRosalyn Drexler, Home…

1981 National Book Awards

Autobiography/BiographyHardcoverWalt Whitman, Justin KaplanPaperbackSamuel Beckett, Deirdre BairChildren's Books, FictionHardcoverThe Night Swimmers, Betsy ByarsPaperbackRamona and Her Mother…

1983–1984 Obie Awards

Best New American PlaySam Shepard, Fool for LoveBest MusicalLee Bruer and Bob Telson, Gospel at ColonusPlaywritingSamuel Beckett, Ohio Impromptu, What Where, Catastrophe and PocketMaria Irene…

Samuel

(Encyclopedia) Samuel, two books of the Bible, originally a single work, called First and Second Samuel in modern Bibles, and First and Second Kingdoms in the Septuagint. They are considered part of…

Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount

(Encyclopedia) Samuel, Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount, 1870–1963, British statesman. Entering Parliament as a Liberal in 1902, he was postmaster general (1910–14, 1915–16) and home secretary (…