Tad Mosel
George Ault " Tad " Mosel Jr. ( born May 1, 1922 in Steubenville, Ohio; † August 24, 2008 in Concord, New Hampshire) was an American screenwriter and playwright, the one in 1961 for the play All the Way Home, adaptation of the 1958 was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction excellent autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family by James Agee, the Pulitzer prize for drama.
Life
Mosel wrote in 1942 his first play, The Happiest Years and started in the mid 1950s as a screenwriter. He first wrote the scripts and templates for television shows and television series such as Playhouse 90 and Armchair Theatre, making it one for the number of known writers like Paddy Chayefsky, Gore Vidal and Rod Serling.
For his play All the Way Home, a literary adaptation of the 1958 posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction novel A Death in the Family by James Agee, In 1961 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama and also received a nomination for the Tony Award for best play. In 1964 he wrote the screenplay for the film The woman of his heart by Delbert Mann with Glenn Ford and Geraldine Page in the lead roles. For the screenplay for the film Against the Current the stairs (1967 ) by Robert Mulligan, he was in 1968 for the award for the best drama of the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award) nominated. In addition, he received the script result John Quincy Adams was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 1977 president of the television series The Adams Chronicles (1976).