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William Ralph Inge
English author, Anglican dean and professor of divinity (1860–1954)
William Ralph IngeKCVO FBA (;[1] 6 June 1860 – 26 February 1954) was an English author, Anglicanpriest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and dean of St Paul's Cathedral. Although as an author he used W. R. Inge, and he was personally known as Ralph,[2] he was widely known by his title as Dean Inge. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.[3]
Early life and education
He was born on 6 June 1860 in Crayke, Yorkshire, England. His father, Rev. William Inge was the local curate, and would later go on to become Provost of Worcester College, Oxford. His mother was Susanna Inge (née Churton), daughter of Edward Churton, rector of Crayke and the Archdeacon of Cleveland. Inge had a "staunchly high-church upbringing".
Inge was educated at Eton College, where he was a King's Scholar and won the Newcastle Scholarship in 1879. In 1879, he went on to King's College, Cambridge, where he won a number of prizes including the
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A Life of William Inge
In the spring of 1973 one of the country’s most successful dramatists, William Inge, ran out of reasons to think he was any good. He went into his garage one night and shut the door, seated himself behind the wheel of his new car, and turned the key. By morning he was dead. “Death makes us all innocent,” Inge had written, “and weaves all our private hurts and griefs and wrongs into the fabric of time, and makes them a part of eternity.”
But William Inge had it made, or so it seemed in 1962. He had written an unprecedented string of Broadway hits: Picnic, Bus Stop, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, and Come Back, Little Sheba. All four plays had become successful films featuring top Hollywood stars. Inge had received a Pulitzer Prize for Picnic and an Academy Award for his screenplay, Splendor in the Grass. Even his longtime friend and mentor, Tennessee Williams, was envious of his success.
Privately, Inge was miserable. His long struggle with alcoholism and profound shame over his homosexuality plagued him before
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William Motter Inge was born at Independence, Kansas, on May 3, 1913. He was the youngest of the five children of a small-town merchant and traveling salesman. As a child, he recited poems in public, kept a scrapbook of movie stars and acted in school plays. At the age of seventeen, in 1930, Inge went to the University of Kansas, Lawrence, where he graduated in 1935. He spent longer than the usual four years there because he took off one year to travel with a tent theater company. From K.U., Inge went to the George Peabody Teacher's College in Nashville, Tennessee, where he had a scholarship. He soon dropped out of Peabody and returned to Kansas, odd-jobbing as a laborer with a highway gang, as an announcer for a Wichita radio station, and as a radio writer. In 1937, he taught high school at Columbus, Kansas, and then returned in 1938 to Peabody to complete his M.A. From his graduation until 1943, Inge taught at Stephens kCollege in Columbia, Missouri. H Copyright ©froughy.pages.dev 2025 | |||