Romulus Linney: Germantown, NY

Playwright Romulus Linney IV (1930 -- 2011) was raised in Boone, North Carolina and Madison, Tennessee. Many of his plays have Appalachian settings (Tennessee, Holy Ghosts, Sand Mountain, Gint, and Heathen Valley) while others focus on European and military themes (The Sorrows of Frederick, 2, The Love Suicides at the Schofield Barracks. Childe Byron is his romantic play about Lord Byron. Linney received a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Romulus Linney was interviewed by Mike Wood on January 14, 2003 at Linney's home in Germantown, NY. The interview segments are courtesy of the William Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, Kansas.