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Robert Earl Price

1942–2025

United States

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Robert Earl Price (1942 – April 16, 2025) was an American playwright and poet. He was a recipient of the American Film Institute's William Wyler award for screenwriting and was the author of four books of poetry and had eleven plays produced in American regional theaters and abroad in Berlin and Johannesburg. He was artist-in-residence in the Drama Department at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, where he also served as artistic director of the Charles Sumner G.A.R. Post #25, a historic hall built in 1908 to honor African-American veterans of the Civil War.

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