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Who wrote the play Driving Miss Daisy?
I loved the movie Driving Miss Daisy, but I had no idea that it was a play beforehand. Who was the playwright who wrote Driving Miss Daisy?
Eric Schad · Updated on
Reviewed by Shannon Martin, Licensed Insurance Agent.
Before its rise to fame as an Academy Award-winning movie in 1989, Driving Miss Daisy was indeed a play. Published in 1987, Alfred Uhry wrote the play Driving Miss Daisy.
The play was the first of three known as the Atlanta Trilogy. The trilogy follows the life of an elderly Jewish woman in early 20th-century Atlanta and her relationship with her Black chauffeur.
On top of winning an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Uhry also received two Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for the play. The film also went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1989, thanks to Uhry’s screenplay and the phenomenal acting of Morgan Freeman as Hoke Colburn and Jessica Tandy as Miss Daisy.
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