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Picnic, drama in three acts by William Inge, produced and published in 1953 and awarded a Pulitzer Prize in the same year. This popular play about a group of lonely women in a small Kansas town whose lives are disrupted by the appearance of a virile, charming drifter captures the frustrations and limitations of Midwestern life. Inge slightly rewrote the ending in a 1962 version called Summer Brave.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.