Sunday, August 31, 2008

I thought so

The Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Tad Mosel (All the Way Home) died earlier this week at the age of 86. As a model for all of us, he suffered a stroke three years ago but nonetheless wrote every day until not long before his death.  A story in the Boston Globe reports that, as he was dying, he complained to his doctor that it was taking too long. “Dying is harder than writing a play,” his doctor reportedly told him.  “Not necessarily,” Mosel replied.
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