Dotson Rader
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Dotson Rader (born July 25, 1942, in Evanston, Illinois) is an American author and playwright who has published four novels and three works of non-fiction as well as God Looked Away, a stage play about Tennessee Williams.{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Rialto-Chatter-Will-Al-Pacino-Play-Tennessee-Williams-on-Broadway-20180207|title=Rialto Chatter: Will Al Pacino Play Tennessee Williams on Broadway?|first=Rialto|last=Chatter|date=|website=BroadwayWorld.com|access-date=January 28, 2019}}
Biography
Rader was a student at Columbia University, and had a side gig as a male hustler. He made his way into the elite echelons of the New York City literary scene. During the 1970s, he became the live-in love of the actress Ruth Ford.{{cite web|url=https://people.com/archive/ruth-ford-dotson-rader-a-december-mistress-muse-to-may-vol-3-no-11/|title=Ruth Ford & Dotson Rader: A December Mistress-Muse to May|author=|date=|website=PEOPLE.com|access-date=January 28, 2019}} He is the author of several books, including I Ain't Marchin Anymore, about the on-campus protests and upheaval during the 1960s, the title inspired by the earlier song by Phil Ochs of the same name, and Cry of the Heart, about his long friendship with the famed American playwright Tennessee Williams, which began in the 1950s.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/19/archives/real-phil-ochs-back-but-theres-a-penalty.html|title=Real Phil Ochs Back, But There's a Penalty|author=|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 19, 1971|publisher=|access-date=January 28, 2019}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/theater/14ford-1.html|title=Ruth Ford, Actress and Artists' Muse, Is Dead at 98|first=Dennis|last=Hevesi|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 14, 2009|publisher=|access-date=January 28, 2019}}{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1979/04/04/tennessee-in-the-tropics/ec78e8c4-81db-4142-83bb-7be7711976d4/ |title=Tennessee in the Tropics |date=1979-04-04 |author1=Madeleine H. Blais |newspaper=The Washington Post |place=Washington, D.C. |issn=0190-8286 |oclc=1330888409}}
For many years Rader conducted interviews and has written feature articles for Parade magazine.{{cite web|url=https://parade.com/member/dotsonrader/|title=Dotson Rader|author=|date=|website=Parade|access-date=January 28, 2019}} Rader's first play, God Looked Away, about Tennessee Williams, had a six-week trial run at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, in 2018 with Al Pacino in the titular role and Judith Light and Garrett Clayton in other featured turns.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-god-looked-away-commentary-20170301-story.html|title='God Looked Away,' and so should you: Why Al Pacino's play falls so short of expectations|first=Charles|last=McNulty|date=March 2017|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=January 28, 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://instinctmagazine.com/post/god-looked-away-garrett-clayton-can-you|title='God Looked Away' From Garrett Clayton, But Can You?|author=|date=February 12, 2017|website=Instinct|access-date=January 28, 2019|archive-date=October 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012054143/http://instinctmagazine.com/post/god-looked-away-garrett-clayton-can-you|url-status=dead}}
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External links
- [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_6913592/ Finding aid to Dotson Rader papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.]
- [https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_12918952 Finding aid to John C. Weiser papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.]
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