When You Comin Back, Red Ryder?: Home Movie, Preface

Mark Howard Medoff

J. T. White, 1974 - American drama - 106 pages

"A taut and gripping story of confrontation in its rawest aspects. Into a run-down diner in a small New Mexico border town is intruded a mysterious and ominous figure, Teddy, with his girl, Cheryl. He has run out of funds, and his VW van needs repair. In the diner he finds Angel and Stephen/Red, who work there, the cripple Lyle, and Richard and Clarisse, the successful businessman and his violinist wife. Teddy terrorizes this group; the portrayal of his machinations provides on the surface a suspense story of great impact."--Dust jacket.

About the author

Mark Medoff was born in Mount Carmel, Illinois on March 18, 1940. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Miami and a master's degree from Stanford University. He began teaching English at New Mexico State in 1966 and taught there for more than 50 years. He wrote more than 30 plays including When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?, The Wager, The Hands of Its Enemy, Gila, Road to a Revolution, The Heart Outright, and Prymate. Children of a Lesser God won the Tony Award for best play in 1980. He also wrote screenplays including Clara's Heart. He died from cancer on April 23, 2019 at the age of 79.

Bibliographic information

• Title: When You Comin Back, Red Ryder?: Home Movie, Preface
• Author: Mark Howard Medoff
• Publisher: J. T. White, 1974
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Aug 10, 2011
• ISBN: 0883710099, 9780883710098
• Length: 106 pages