Oct. 10: Harold Pinter, English playwright

BORN OCTOBER 10th:

Harold Pinter (1930-2008) English playwright who wrote The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, and Betrayal. Pinter won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005. He is perhaps better known to a wider audience for his screen adaptations of the works of others, such as John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman and the 2007 film version of Anthony Shaffer's play, Sleuth.

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