Frank D. Gilroy Biography

Fast Facts

• Was drafted into the U․S․ Army and served in Europe during World War II for three years
• Won a Berlin Film Festival Award for his film "Desperate Characters" in 1971
• Won the theater world's "triple crown" - a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award and a Drama Critics' Circle Award - during his lifetime
• Graduated with high honors from Dartmouth College with a degree in sociology in 1950 and also briefly studied drama at Yale University
• Made his debut off-Broadway with 1962's "Who'll Save the Plowboy?"
• Quote: "I'd like to walk into a room sometime and be introduced as the author of something other than that play․ There's always one thing in a career that has more impact than anything else․ In my case, 'The Subject Was Roses' was that thing․"
• Best known as an award-winning playwright and screenwriter who received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play "The Subject Was Roses" in 1965
• The Subject Was Roses was his first and only Broadway hit and achieved greatly popularity than any of his other plays, novels and screenplays