Beth Henley

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

I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

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.