Beth Henley

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.

The closest I've come to being on a reality TV show is C-SPAN's live coverage of the Senate floor.

I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.