 Ion Băieșu

Ion Băieşu, pen name of Ion Mihalache (2 January 1933, Aldeni, Buzău County–21 September 1992, Nutley, NJ) was a Romanian playwright, novelist and movie and television writer, best known for his novel "Balanţa" and his play "Preşul".Son of a poor shepherd from a village near Buzău, young Ion graduated from the Commercial High-School in Buzău in 1951.