This author controversially lost the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for Drama to Zoe Akins’s play The Old Maid. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this playwright whose acclaimed plays like The Children’s Hour and The Little Foxes never won her a Pulitzer.
ANSWER: Lillian Hellman [or Lillian Florence Hellman]
[10h] Zoe Akins’s play seemed doomed for failure when it premiered the exact same day as this play in which Duke Mantee’s gang takes over the Black Mesa Bar-B-Q in Arizona.
ANSWER: The Petrified Forest (by Robert Sherwood)
[10m] In February of 1935, just a month after The Old Maid and The Petrified Forest opened, this author premiered his play about the Berger family, Awake and Sing!
ANSWER: Clifford Odets
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