Sidney Kingsley (1906-1995), American playwright, born in New York City, and educated at Cornell University. In 1933 his first professionally staged play, Men in White, was produced. Awarded the 1934 Pulitzer Prize in drama, it reveals with penetrating realism trials of the medical profession. Dead End (1935), a bitter story of the lives of New York City slum children, was also successful. He was given the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for The Patriots (1942), a historical drama, and for Darkness at Noon (1952), an adaptation of the novel by Arthur Koestler. One of his most popular plays is Lunatics and Lovers (1954), a broad farce. Night Life (1962) is a melodrama of big-city life.