Hank Bates is a playwright, novelist and environmental attorney who lives in Little Rock, Arkansas. In addition to American Beauty, his plays include Zeke's Vision, Into the Deep and Twilight's Last Gleaming. He has received grants from, among others, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. He is the recipient of a Rotary International Fellowship to study playwriting and drama at Manchester University in Manchester, England, and he was playwright-in-residence at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre; the Ucross Foundation in Ucross, Wyoming; and the Lost Colony Theatre in Manteo, North Carolina.
