Last updated: Thursday, March 5, 2009
TOP SCREENWRITER AND PLAYWRIGHT FOOTE DEAD AT 92
The Pulitzer Prize and Oscar-winning screenwriter behind movie classics TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and TENDER MERCIES has died.
HORTON FOOTE
Horton Foote was working on a production of one of his plays in Hartford, Connecticut, when he died. He was 92.
Foote, who was born in Texas, won screenplay Oscars in 1962 and 1983 for To Kill A Mockingbird and Tender Mercies respectively.
He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his play The Man From Atlanta.
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