Sidney Kingsley

A playwright whose stage dramas took on some of the era's hardest social subjects: slum poverty and crime in Dead End (1935), medical ethics in Men in White, which won the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and Stalinist interrogation in his adaptation of Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon (1951). He later led the Dramatists Guild of America and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1983.