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Tracy Letts


Born
in Tulsa, Oklahoma, The United States
July 04, 1965

Genre
Plays and Drama

Influences
the plays of Tennessee Williams and the novels of William Faulkner and ...more


Tracy Letts is an American playwright and actor who received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County.

Letts was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to best-selling author Billie Letts, of Where The Heart Is and The Honk And Holler Opening Soon fame, and the late college professor and actor Dennis Letts. His brother Shawn is a jazz musician and composer. He also has a brother Dana. Letts was raised in Durant, Oklahoma and graduated from Durant High School in the early 1980s. He moved to Dallas, where he waited tables and worked in telemarketing while starting as an actor. He acted in Jerry Flemmons' O Dammit!, which was part of a new playwrights series sponsored by Southern Methodist University.

Letts moved to Chicago at the ag ...more

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Average rating: 4.09 · 22,962 ratings · 1,441 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors
August: Osage County
4.14 avg rating — 19,156 ratings — published 2008 — 32 editions
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Bug
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Killer Joe
3.90 avg rating — 740 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions
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Superior Donuts
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Man from Nebraska
3.43 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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Mary Page Marlowe
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The Minutes
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Linda Vista
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“Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.”
― Tracy Letts, August: Osage County
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“My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.”
― Tracy Letts, August: Osage County
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“I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.”
― Tracy Letts, August: Osage County
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