Donald L. Coburn

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Donald L. Coburn (born 1938) was the winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for The Gin Game.

Coburn was born on August 4, 1938 in East Baltimore, Maryland. His parents divorced two years later. ^[1] He graduated from high school in 1957. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1958 to 1960 . He has been married twice. His first wife was Nazle Joyce French, whom he married in 1964. They divorced in 1971. He then married Marsha Woodruff Maher in 1975. He had his own advertising company from 1965 to 1968. He then worked for the Stanford Advertising Agency in Dallas, Texas from 1968 to 1971. He worked as a marketing consultant from 1973 to 1976.

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Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. Galenet. Document Number: H1000019020. Online. May 30, 2008.