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Abstract
Lanford Eugene Wilson [1937- 2011] is a contemporary American playwright whose dramatic talent flourished during the 1970s and the 1980s. He started his dramatic career in the early 1960s, a period that witnessed major changes in the theatrical landscape. This was a time of unsettlement both politically and socially, the thing that was reflected on theater as the art of life. Lanford Wilson was born in Lebanon, Missouri, on 13 April, 1937. He was the only child of Ralph and Violetta Wilson who divorced when he was five (Dean, 11).
After the divorce, Wilson’s father went to California where he remarried and found a job in an aircraft plant. Also Wilson moved with his mother to Springfield, Missouri, where she found a job as a seamstress in a garment factory, leading a very poor kind of life for the next six years. In spite of this poor upbringing, he, as Anne M. Dean notes in her Discovery and Invention, recalls these early years with affection (11). In 1948 his mother married Walt Lenhard (W. E. Lenhard) and moved with her son to Lenhard’s farm near Ozark, Missouri, where Wilson lived till graduation from Ozark High School in 1955 (Barnett, 2).
After graduation from high school, Wilson joined Southwest Missouri State College in Springfield where he spent a year before moving to San Diego. By this time he was eighteen years old, and he felt a bad need to see his father and to reunite with him. In his book Lanford Wilson, Gene A. Barnett mentioned how Wilson talked about this need saying, “ ‘I had the usual stepfather’s problems,’ Wilson says of his years in Ozark with his mother and her second husband. ‘Actually, I guess he was okay to me. . . . It’s just that I wanted a father so badly, and here I both had one and I didn’t have one.’” (49). Consequently, he left college before obtaining his degree and moved to San Diego to be near his father whom he had not seen for thirteen years. During his stay there, which lasted only for one year, he worked as a riveter in the Rayan Aircraft Plant, and enrolled in San Diego State College “where he studied”, as Dean said, “art and art history” (16). As a result, he considered that he might become an artist or a specialist in graphic design (Dean 16).