Frank D. Gilroy: Frank D. Gilroy. Writer: Desperate Characters. Frank D. Gilroy, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright who established himself as a screenwriter for television before breaking through as a dramatist with his 1964 Broadway hit The Subject Was Roses (1968), was born in New York City on October 13, 1925. A native of The Bronx, his father was an Irish-American coffee broker, and his mother was of German and Italian extraction. After graduating from...
Known For: Desperate Characters (Writer), Once in Paris... (Writer), Nero Wolfe (Writer), The Gig (Writer)