David Rabe
David William Rabe ( born March 10, 1940 in Dubuque, Iowa) is an American writer, playwright and screenwriter.
Life
David William Rabe was born the son of Ruth McCormick and William Rabe. In his hometown, he attended several Catholic schools and earned his bachelor's degree from Loras College Catholic. His subsequent theater studies at Villanova University in 1965, interrupted during the Vietnam War, by his enlistment in the United States Army. The last eleven months of his two -year term to 1967 he spent in Vietnam. After his return, he finished his master's degree in Creative Writing at Villanova. With his first theater piece sticks and bones, in which he recorded his Vietnam experience Kries, he won a 1972 Tony Award for Best play. The piece was filmed in 1973 and raven itself could debut with the drama The Hunting of the life as a screenwriter. There were other films like Casualties of War, The company Hurlyburly and to whom he wrote the screenplay, which he adapted the latter with his own play.
With his first wife, Elizabeth Pan, whom he married in 1969, Raven had a child together. Even with his second wife, Jill Clayburgh, with whom he was married from 1979 until her death from cancer in 2010, he had two children together, including actress Lily Rabe.
Works
- 2000: Recital of the Dog
- 2005: A Primitive Heart
- 2008: Dinosaurs on the Roof