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Ketti Frings (28 February 1909 – 11 February 1981) was an American writer, playwright, and screenwriter who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958.
Ketti Frings. Writer: Come Back, Little Sheba. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ketti Frings, who also distinguished herself as a screenwriter, was born Katherine Hartley on February 28, 1909 in Columbus, Ohio.
Ketti Frings (1909-1981) A Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, Ketti Frings started her career in writing as an advertising copy editor and novelist before writing her award winning drama, Look Homeward, Angel (1957).
Playwright, screenwriter, and novelist Ketti Frings produced an impressive number of plays, novels, and screenplays during her 35-year career, but Look Homeward Angel (1957), her adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical novel, remains the work for which she is best known.
Ketti Frings is the daughter of a paper box salesman. During Frings' childhood the family lived in 13 different cities, but after their mother's death, Frings and her two sisters stayed with an aunt in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she attended Lake School for Girls.
Playwright Ketti Frings adapted the novel as a play of the same name. The play opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre November 28, 1957, and ran for a total of 564 performances, closing on April 4, 1959. In 1958, Frings won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for her
Feb 13, 1981 · Ketti Frings, a screenwriter and playwright whose dramatization of Thomas Wolfe's ''Look Homeward, Angel'' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, died of cancer at Cedars Sinai Hospital in...
