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Beth Henley

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

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

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"I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles."
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"The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress."
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"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."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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