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Shaikh Ayaz
Shaikh Ayaz born Mubarak Ali Shaikh( March 1923 – 28 December 1997) was one of the prominent Sindhi poets of Pakistan in general and Sindh in particular.
The author of more than 50 books on poetry, biographies, plays and short- stories in both Sindhi and Urdu languages.
His translations of Shah Jo Risalo, which was written by the 18th century Sufi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, from Sindhi to Urdu language established him as an authority in his domain.
He received Sitara- i- Imtiaz for his literary works and is regarded as a" revolutionary and romantic poet".
In 2018, a university, Shaikh Ayaz University, was established and was named after him.
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Mary Hunter Wolf
Mary Hunter Wolf( 1905? – November 3, 2000), born Mary Hunter, was an American theater director and producer.
She made her Broadway directorial debut on 4 April 1944 at the Bijou Theater with Only the Heart, the first play written by Horton Foote.
She was director of the initial 1954 Broadway production of Jerome Robbins' version of" Peter Pan", now the standard version on the American stage, and was founding executive director of the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut.
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Frances Lasker Brody
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Mrs. Brody, who died on November 12, 2009 at 93, was the wife of Sidney F. Brody, a real estate developer who died in 1983, and the stepdaughter of Mary Lasker, a philanthropist and champion of medical research who died in 1994.
The Brodys lived in a modernist house in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles that was designed by the architect A. Quincy Jones and the decorator William Haines to show off the couple ’s collection.
Lucy Kroll
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Her clients included Carl Sandburg, James Earl Jones, Norman Mailer, John Vlahos, and Horton Foote.
Born in Brooklyn, her maiden name was Lucy Rosengardt.
She graduated from Hunter College in 1933.
Horton Foote
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He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1995 for his play" The Young Man From Atlanta" and two Academy Awards, one for an original screenplay(" Tender Mercies") and one for adapted screenplay(" To Kill a Mockingbird").
In 1995, Foote was the inaugural recipient of the Austin Film Festival's Distinguished Screenwriter Award.
In describing his three- play work," The Orphans' Home Cycle", the drama critic for the Wall Street Journal said this:" Foote, who died last March, left behind a masterpiece, one that will rank high among the signal achievements of American theater in the 20th century."
In 2000, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Adal Soomro
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He was Director Shaikh Ayaz Chair at Shah Abdul Latif University in Khairpur, Pakistan.
He holds a PhD in the history of Sindhi Adabi Sangat, a Pakistani literary organization for which he has also been Secretary.
Soomro has written 15 books: one book of prose, three poetry collections, and eight works of children's literature and poetry.
When asked about writing in other languages, he explained that because people dream in their native tongue, they express themselves most effectively through it, and that preferring to work in a different language would leave his own vulnerable.
Commenting on the longevity of poetic works, and on the challenges young poets face, he said they must combine artistic merit with thought while avoiding becoming repetitive.

Question: Who died first, Shaikh Ayaz or Horton Foote?
Answer: Shaikh Ayaz