Driving Miss Daisy (play)

Driving Miss Daisy
Driving Miss Daisy
Written by	Alfred Uhry
Characters	Hoke Coleburn; Daisy Werthan; Boolie Werthan;
Date premiered	1987
Place premiered	Playwrights Horizons; New York City
Original language	English
Series	Atlanta Trilogy: Driving Miss Daisy; The Last Night of Ballyhoo; Parade;
Genre	Drama

Driving Miss Daisy is a play by American playwright Alfred Uhry, about the relationship of an elderly Southern Jewish woman, Daisy Werthan, and her African-American chauffeur, Hoke Coleburn, from 1948 to 1973. The play was the first in Uhry's Atlanta Trilogy, which deals with Jewish residents of that city in the early 20th century. The play won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.^[1]

^ "The 1988 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama: Driving Miss Daisy, by Alfred Uhry". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2021-03-29.

[1] "The 1988 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama: Driving Miss Daisy, by Alfred Uhry". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2021-03-29.

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