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Hugh Leonard (John Joseph Byrne)(1926 – 2009) Real name: John Joseph Byrne, after adoption he changed his name to John Keyes Byrne, but best known by his pen name: Hugh Leonard. An Irish dramatist, television writer and essayist. In a career that spanned 50 years, he wrote nearly 30 full-length plays, 10 one-act plays, three volumes of essays, two autobiographies, three novels and numerous screenplays and teleplays, as well as writing a regular newspaper column. Gossip is more popular than literature. I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished. |