- Maria Irene Fornes was born on May 14, 1930 in Havana, Cuba. She was an actress and writer, known for La cravate (1957), Vellykket liv for 3 (1971) and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). She died on October 30, 2018 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Nominated for the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "And What of the Night?".
- She immigrated to the U.S. with her mother and a sister after the death of her father. They settled in New York. and she became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1951. She was talented in the visual arts, and initially planned to become a painter. When she saw Roger Blin's original production of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" in Paris, it changed her direction in life. She went on to write more than 40 plays that would influence American theater, but without gaining mainstream success.
- On truth: I have to live with my own truth. I have to live with it. You live with your own truth. I cannot live with it.
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