Larry Kramer, playwright and AIDS activist, dead at 84
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foxnews.comLarry Kramer, the famed playwright and AIDS activist, has died. He was 84. Kramer died on Wednesday in Manhattan, according to The New York Times.
Kramer's husband, David Webster, told The Times that he died of pneumonia. Kramer, who wrote "The Normal Heart," was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay for “Women in Love,” the 1969 adaptation of a D.H.
Lawrence novel. It starred Glenda Jackson, who won her first Oscar for her performance. In addition, he also wrote the 1972 screenplay “Lost Horizon”; a novel, “Faggots”; and the plays “Sissies’ Scrapbook,” “The Furniture of Home,” “Just Say No” and “The Destiny of Me,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1993.
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