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Donald L. Coburn (born August 4, 1938) is an American dramatist. He won the
Pulitzer Prize for Drama The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were a ...
in 1978 for his play ''
The Gin Game ''The Gin Game'' is a two-person, two-act play by Donald L. Coburn that premiered at American Theater Arts in Hollywood in September 1976, directed by Kip Niven. It was Coburn's first play, and the theater's first production. The play won the 1 ...
''."Drama"
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-12. Coburn was born in
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to parents who divorced two years later. He graduated from high school in 1957, then served in the U.S. Navy from 1958 to 1960. He has been married twice, first to Nazle Joyce French, whom he married in 1964 and divorced in 1971, then to Marsha Woodruff Maher in 1975. He had his own advertising company from 1965 to 1968. He then worked for the Stanford Advertising Agency in
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from 1968 to 1971. He worked as a marketing consultant from 1973 to 1976.


References

* http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-gin-game/bio.html * Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008
Galenet.
Document Number: H1000019020. Online. May 30, 2008.


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* 1938 births Living people Pulitzer Prize for Drama winners 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights Writers from Baltimore {{US-dramatist-stub