The American playwright William Inge (1913-1973) was so tight with Tennessee Williams that scholars speculate they might have been lovers at some point. He was in the intimate gay literary circles of Williams, Christopher Isherwood, Gore Vidal and others, and among the most successful, winning a Pulitzer Prize for his 1953 play, “Picnic,” and an Academy Award for his 1961 film, “Splendor in the Grass.”
