Obituary First Lines: Harold Pinter

Playwright Harold Pinter has died after a long battle with throat cancer. Here's how some papers are summing up his life.

"No one made the sound of silence more ominously theatrical than Harold Pinter." -The Associated Press

"Harold Pinter, the fiercely political Nobel Prize-winning British playwright who used suspenseful plots, odd halting dialogue, and working-class settings full of menace to create puzzling yet riveting drama..." -The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Harold Pinter, the son of tailor from London's East End who rose to become one of the nation's greatest playwrights..." -The Independent

"Playwright Harold Pinter's dialogue has been compared to everyday prattle that covers a menacing subtext." -The Los Angeles Times

"You can measure the mark that Harold Pinter has left on British theatre by one word: Pinteresque. Few playwrights get their own adjective." -The Times of London

The Independent also has a lovely little piece about Pinter's love of cricket.