(September 21, 1930 – January 15, 2011)[1] |
Life and career
Linney was born in Philadelphia, the son of Maitland Clabaugh (née Thompson) and Romulus Zachariah Linney III.[3] His great-grandfather was Republican Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney.[2] Linney was raised in Boone, North Carolina and Madison, Tennessee. He was the author of three novels, thirteen plays and twenty-two short plays that have been produced in the United States, Europe and Asia.He earned a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Linney received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as Guggenheim, Rockefeller, National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts grants, an Obie award, a Yukio Mishima Prize for Fiction, and the Award for Literature, Award of Merit and Gold Medal for Drama from the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters. He received an honorary doctorates from Oberlin in 1994, from Appalachian State University in 1995, and from Wake Forest University in 1998. He was a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Fellowship of Southern Writers, National Theatre Conference, College of Fellows of the American Theatre, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Corporation of Yaddo.
Linney had been chair of the MFA Playwriting program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and Professor of Playwriting in the Actors Studio MFA. Program at The New School in New York. An interview with Linney (both the original audio and a transcript) appears in Blackbird[4]
Death
Romulus Linney died on January 15, 2011, aged 80, from lung cancer. [5]Family
He was the father of actress Laura Linney. An interview with Laura Linney can be found at Bombsite.Works
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