Hugo Glendinning
Alan Bennett has been one of England's leading dramatists since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s. His work includes the Talking Heads television series, and the stage plays
Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, A Question of Attribution, and
The Madness of King George III. His recent play,
The History Boys (now a major motion picture), won six Tony Awards, including best play, in 2006. In the same year his memoir,
Untold Stories, was a number-one bestseller in the United Kingdom.