Biography
Alfred Uhry is an American playwright and screenwriter. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on 3 December 1936 and graduated from Brown University in 1958.
Uhry wrote the play Driving Miss Daisy (1987), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and adapted it into the screenplay for the 1989 film. He co-wrote the screenplay for Mystic Pizza (1988) and has written other plays including The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1996) and the book for the musical Parade (1998). He is the only person to have received an Academy Award, two Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for dramatic writing.
