Driving Miss Daisy (play)

Driving Miss Daisy
Written byAlfred Uhry
Characters
  • Hoke Coleburn
  • Daisy Werthan
  • Boolie Werthan
Date premiered1987
Place premieredPlaywrights Horizons
New York City
Original languageEnglish
SeriesAtlanta Trilogy:
GenreDrama

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]

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