married twice before coming out at age 53, at which time he left his position as the Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia to concentrate on his writing. He cited his homosexuality as an influence on his theater work, especially his play Lord Alfred's Lover, based on the life of Oscar Wilde. He won an Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre from the American Theatre Wing in 2006 and a Robert Chesley Award in 2007. Bentley became an American citizen in 1948 and had been living in New York City for many years at the time of his death. He turned 100 on September 14, 2016. Bentley died at his home in Manhattan on August 5, 2020, at the age of 103. Selected works He wrote numerous books of theatre criticism. In addition, he edited The Importance of Scrutiny (1964), a collection from Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review, and Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938–1968 (1971). His most-produced play, Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been: The Investigations of Show-Business by the Un-American Activities Committee 1947–1958 (1972), was based on the transcripts from the House Un-American Activities Committee collected in Thirty Years of Treason. Books (theatre criticism) 1944: A Century of Hero Worship 1946: The Playwright As Thinker 1947: Bernard Shaw 1948: The Modern Theatre 1953: In Search of Theater 1956: What Is Theatre? 1964: The Life of the Drama 1971: Thirty Years of Treason 1972: Theater of War 1981: Brecht Commentaries 1987: Thinking About The Playwright Plays 1967: A Time To Live & A Time To Die (published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.) 1972: Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been: The Investigations of Show-Business by the Un-American Activities Committee 1947–1958 1979: Lord Alfred's Lover (collected in Monstrous Martyrdoms, 1985) 1979: Wannsee, a Tragi-Comedy (published in The Massachusetts Review Vol. 20, No. 3) 1985: H for Hamlet German Requiem (collected in Monstrous Martyrdoms, 1985) Round One (published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.) Round Two (published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.) "The Sternheim Trilogy" containing The Underpants, The Snob, & 1913 (published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.) Discography The following are recordings done by Bentley for Folkways Records. 1961: "Bertolt Brecht before the Committee on Un-American Activities: An Historical Encounter" 1963: "A Man's A Man by Bertolt Brecht" 1964: "Songs of Hanns Eisler" 1965: "Bentley on Brecht: