Playwright and Screenwriter Shelagh Delaney Has Died

Delaney’s plays include A Taste of Honey, which premiered when she was 19, as well as The Lion in Love, and The House That Jack Built.

In addition to writing the screenplay for the movie adaptation of A Taste of Honey, which earned her and director Tony Richardson BAFTA and Writer’s Guild award for best screenplay, she also wrote the script for the movies The White Bus, The Raging Moon, and Dance with a Stranger, along with Charlie Bubbles, which also earned Delaney a Writer’s Guild award. Her memoir, Sweetly Sings the Donkey, was published in 1963.

She is survived by a daughter, as well as three grandchildren.