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Tracy Letts

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born
July 04, 1965 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, The United States

gender
male

genre
Plays and Drama

influences
the plays of Tennessee Williams and the novels of William Faulkner and...more


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Tracy Letts is an American playwright and actor who received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County.

Letts was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to best-selling author Billie Letts, of Where The Heart Is and The Honk And Holler Opening Soon fame, and the late college professor and actor Dennis Letts. His brother Shawn is a jazz musician and composer. He also has a brother Dana. Letts was raised in Durant, Oklahoma and graduated from Durant High School in the early 1980s. He moved to Dallas, where he waited tables and worked in telemarketing while starting as an actor. He acted in Jerry Flemmons' O Dammit!, which was part of a new playwrights series sponsored by Southern Methodist University.

Letts moved to Chicago at the ag...more


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Average rating: 4.23 · 2116 ratings · 222 reviews · 5 distinct works
August: Osage County
4.33 of 5 stars 433 avg rating — 1743 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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Bug
3.71 of 5 stars 371 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Superior Donuts
3.81 of 5 stars 381 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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Killer Joe
3.96 of 5 stars 396 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1999
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Man from Nebraska
3.4 of 5 stars 340 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Quotes by Tracy Letts

“I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.”
― Tracy Letts, August: Osage County
tags: damaged
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“We covered this around Year Three, Bill: that you're the Master of Space and Time and I'm a spastic Pomeranian.”
― Tracy Letts, August: Osage County
tags: dysfunctional-families
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“The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.”
― Tracy Letts, August: Osage County
tags: darkness , night
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