Lindsay, Howard (1889-1968), was an American playwright best known for the many plays and stories for musical comedies he wrote with Russel Crouse. They won the 1946 Pulitzer Prize in drama for their political satire State of the Union (1945). They collaborated on the comedy Life with Father (1939), the longest running nonmusical play in American theater history. Lindsay starred in it with his wife, Dorothy Stickney. Lindsay and Crouse wrote the books for such musicals as Call Me Madam (1950) and The Sound of Music (1959). Lindsay was born on March 12, 1889, in Waterford, New York. He died on Feb. 11, 1968.
