William Motter Inge (
May 3,
1913-
June 10,
1973) was an
American author and playwright, whose works feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. His play
Picnic earned him the
Pulitzer Prize for Drama in
1953. In
1961, he won an
Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for
Splendor in the Grass. Inge committed
suicide in
Los Angeles in 1973.