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THE PLAYWRIGHT and novelist Thornton Wilder won three Pulitzer Prizes, the admiration of his peers and success at the box office and bookstore. Ever accessible, he gave lectures, responded to […]

ON a warm and breezy Georgia morning, a tall, toned and down-to-earth Tyler Perry swaggers onto the front porch of his grand palace, dressed to the nines. The 34-year-old new-school [...]

Playwright David Mamet and his actress-wife Rebecca Pidgeon have renovated their 1915 Colonial Revival house near Boston. The project involved the recreation of the facade to include new windows, a slate roof and a picket fence. Architect Robert Kahn and interior designer Susan Reddick collaborated on the project.

Nobel laureate poet and playwright Derek Walcott says his motherland St. Lucia has seen its share of imperialist ascent and decline. In spite of its tumultuous history, the peninsula has maintained its elegant coolness and simplicity that make living there such an attractive notion.

Hart bought an 18th-century farmhouse in 1937 and turned it into a country estate. He furnished the house with antiques and collections. Hart sold the house in 1954 because he believed that people should make dramatic changes in their lives every few years.

Playwright Baitz and director Mantello live in a comfortable, quiet, casually decorated apartment in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, NY. The apartment contains many personal items, such as paintings done by friends.

Curators Sally Thomas Pavetti and Lois Erickson McDonald have restored 90% of Monte Cristo Cottage, O'Neill's summer home in New London, CT. The home was the setting for two of O'Neill's plays, and the restorers are getting their inspiration from those plays.

Playwright Miller lives in a farmhouse in Roxbury, CT, with his wife, photographer Inge Morath. Miller lost some priceless possessions when the farmhouse burned in 1983, but he managed to salvage the frame and restore the house.

DUBLIN: A school for scandal has emerged over the campaign to preserve 12 Dorset Street, the Dublin birthplace of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. In a September '07 report in The Irish [...]

United for Libraries, in partnership with Empire State Center for the Book, designated the windmill at Stony Brook University of New York, Southampton, a Literary Landmark in honor of playwright [...]

Playwright Kushner, who moved from an apartment in Brooklyn, NY, to one in Manhattan, NY, after becoming successful, describes his feelings of impermanence. The eclectically decorated apartment includes pieces such as a gold sofa similar to the one in the film 'The Night of the Shooting Stars.'

Shaw's Corner is a former residence of George Bernard Shaw in Ayot St. Lawrence, England which has been converted into a museum filled with Shaw memorabilia. The museum is owned by the National Trust and is open Wednesday through Sunday from 1 to 5PM.

New Orleans, La.: Every word she wrote may have been a lie (including 'and' and 'the,' as Mary McCarthy alleged in a notorious quip), but exactly where Lillian Hellman grew [...]

Senior editor Kristin O'Meara communed with the spirit of Noel Coward at Firefly, his island redoubt in Port Maria, Jamaica. This is her report: PORT MARIA -- It's not a […]

He was already famous when he came to live in the tawny East Bay hills. Eugene O'Neill wanted his Danville, California, aerie, the Tao House, to be a workplace sheltered […]

One of this country's most important dramatists, Eugene O'Neill lived a troubled, ramshackle existence most of his life. Son of an actor and drug-addict mother, he spent his early years [...]