US playwright and Oscar-winning screenplaywriter of To Kill A Mockingbird Horton Foote has died at the age of 92.
Foote, who had written about 50 plays in seven decades, won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1962 for his screen adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. He also won for another Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1983 for Tender Mercies.
Foote also was awarded the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for drama The Young Man from Atlanta. Foote died in his sleep at his temporary home in Hartford, according to The Hartford Stage theatre.
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