PETER STONE (Book)
Biography
PETER STONE (book) is an acclaimed writer with four Tony Awards to his
credit. Titanic, 1776, The Will Rogers Follies, and Woman of the Year all
won for Best Musical. He also adapted the original book for the Tony
Award-winning revival of Annie Get Your Gun. His other Broadway credits
include the musicals My One and Only, Sugar, Two by Two, and his
collaboration with Erich Maria Remarque on the play Full Circle. The
author of more than two dozen feature films, he won the Academy Award
for his screenplay, Father Goose, the Edgar (Mystery Writers of America
Award) for his film Charade, and the Christopher Award for the screen
adaptation of his own musical 1776. Among his other films are The Taking
of Pelham 1-2-3, Mirage, Arabesque, Sweet Charity, Skin Game, Who’s
Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? and most recently, Just Cause. Writing
for TV, he won the Emmy Award – the only writer ever to win the Tony
Oscar and Emmy – for an episode fro the acclaimed CBS series “The
Defenders.” He served as president of the Dramatists Guild, the national
society of playwrights, composers and lyricists, for 18 years.