William Inge Theatre Festival to honor playwrights. The William Inge Collection at the college is the most extensive collection of Inge material, including 400 manuscripts, films, correspondence, theater programs, and other related items. The March 2008 issue of The Brooklyn Rail featured interviews by playwright Adam Kraar of former Inge House resident playwrights Marcia Cebulska, Catherine Filloux, Caridad Svich, Lydia Stryk, and Alice Tuan, relating how Inge's life and work has influenced them. Works Plays 1950: Come Back, Little Sheba 1953: Picnic 1955: Bus Stop 1957: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 1959: A Loss of Roses 1962: Summer Brave (a reworking of Picnic) 1963: Natural Affection 1966: Where's Daddy? 1973: The Last Pad Off the Main Road Short plays To Bobolink, for Her Spirit People in the Wind A Social Event The Boy in the Basement The Tiny Closet Memory of Summer Bus Riley's Back in Town The Rainy Afternoon The Mall An Incident at the Standish Arms The Strains of Triumph 1953: Glory in the Flower The Killing The Love Death The Silent Call Bad Breath Morning on the Beach Moving In A Murder Film and TV 1952: Come Back Little Sheba 1955: Picnic 1956: Bus Stop 1960: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 1961: Splendor in the Grass - Reverend Whitman (uncredited) 1963: All Fall Down 1964: Out on the Outskirts of Town (a reworking of Off the Main Road) - Doctor (final appearance) 1965: Bus Riley's Back in Town (as Walter Gage) Novels 1970: Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff 1971: My Son Is a Splendid Driver See also References Further reading Johnson, Jeff. William Inge and the Subversion of Gender: Rewriting Stereotypes in the Plays, Novels, and Screenplays. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2005. Radavich, David. "William Inge's Dramatic Mindscape". South Dakota Review 42:3 (Fall 2004): 49–69. Voss, Ralph F. A Life of William Inge: The Strains of Triumph. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Listen to Natural Affection audio scenes and interview External links William Inge Center for the Arts, at Independence Community College, in Independence, Kansas. William Inge Collection at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas William Motter Inge Collection at Pittsburg State University William Inge Collection at the Harry Ransom Center St. Louis Walk of Fame New York Public Library Blog about William Inge and Barbara Baxley 1913 births 1973 suicides 20th-century American novelists American