Born in Texas and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and the Yale School
of Drama. His plays include Heat, Domino Courts (Obie Award) and Gillette (Drama-Logue Award). Big River won him a 1985
Tony® Award for Best Book of a Musical. His fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories anthology, and he
has published a collection, Good Rockin' Tonight, and a novel, Storm Season. He has taught at the Michener Center for
Writers at the University of Texas, written screenplays for the studios and published nonfiction in The Atlantic and Texas
Monthly. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Marjorie and their son Max.
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