Alfred Uhry

Alfred Fox Uhry (born December 3, 1936) is an American playwright and screenwriter of German-Jewish descent, raised in Atlanta, Georgia. After graduating from Brown University, he began his career as a lyricist in 1960s New York before achieving acclaim in his late forties with works drawing from Southern Jewish family experiences. Uhry is distinguished as the only American writer to secure the theater's "triple crown" of a Pulitzer Prize for Driving Miss Daisy (1988), an Academy Award for its screenplay adaptation (1989), and two Tony Awards—for Best Play (The Last Night of Ballyhoo, 1997) and Best Book of a Musical (Parade, 1999). His Atlanta Trilogy—encompassing Driving Miss Daisy, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and Parade—chronicles mid-20th-century Jewish life in the American South, blending personal history with historical events like the Leo Frank case.