A character created by this author gives a monologue beginning "I always worry that maybe people aren't going to like me".
A character created by this author gives a monologue beginning "I always worry that maybe people aren't going to like me". That character of his is a military cadet who commits suicide after revealing that he is half-Jewish. In a play by this author, a waitress is flattered to hear that her older admirer, Gerald Lyman, has been arrested for making sexual advances on children. He expanded his first play, Farther Off from Heaven, into his play about the dysfunctional Flood family, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Bo Decker pursues the nightclub singer Cherie to the title location of a play by this writer, in which a snowstorm forces a group of people to seek shelter in a restaurant west of Kansas City. For 10 points, name this Midwestern American playwright of Bus Stop and Picnic.
A character created by this author gives a monologue beginning "I always worry that maybe people aren't going to like me".
William Inge