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Lapierre, Dominique
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Mark Medoff was born in Mount Carmel, Illinois on March 18, 1940. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Miami and a master's degree from Stanford University. He began teaching English at New Mexico State in 1966 and taught there for more than 50 years.
He wrote more than 30 plays including When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?, The Wager, The Hands of Its Enemy, Gila, Road to a Revolution, The Heart Outright, and Prymate. Children of a Lesser God won the Tony Award for best play in 1980. He also wrote screenplays including Clara's Heart. He died from cancer on April 23, 2019 at the age of 79.
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