The Dying Gaul and Other Screenplays

Craig Lucas is a premier American dramatist and now a major film director. These are his scripts forThe Dying Gaul,The Secret Lives of Dentists, andLongtime Companion—whichThe New York Timescalled “the truest fictional screen chronicle of the advent of AIDS.” Commentary by Lucas and luminaries such as Mary-Louise Parker and Alan Rudolph provide further insight into Lucas’s work. Craig Lucaswrote both plays and screenplays forRecklessandPrelude to a Kiss.He has won the award for excellence in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels mid-career achievement award, and the Sundance Audience Award.