Playwright Horton Foote Dead at 92

Horton Foote, playwright and screenwriter, died March 4. Foote wrote more than 50 plays and films. He won a Pultizer Prize in 1995 for his play The Young Man From Atlanta. He also won 2 Oscars for his screen adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and for his original script Tender Mercies. Frank Rich, who as chief theater critic of The New York Times in the 1980s was one of Mr. Foote’s champions, once called him “one of America’s living literary wonders.” On Wednesday Mr. Rich described Mr. Foote as “a major American dramatist whose epic body of work recalls Chekhov in its quotidian comedy and heartbreak, and Faulkner in its ability to make his own corner of America stand for the whole.”