Barbara Field

[1] She wrote adaptations of such great works of literature as Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol, both by Charles Dickens, and of Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini.

Other plays include Neutral Countries, co-winner of the Humana Festival's Great American Play contest in 1983,[2] and Boundary Waters, for which she received a DramaLogue Award in 1992.

[2] She also authored three books, New Classics from the Guthrie Stage(Smith and Kraus) and Barbara Field, Collected Plays, Vol I & II (Amazon).

[2] Field was a co-founder of The Playwrights' Center[2] and served as playwright-in-residence at the Guthrie Theater from 1974 to 1981.

She died due to complications from a stroke on February 21, 2021 at the age of 87.