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Writers Guild of America, East, presents Burkey Award to Archive of American TV

By Susan Kingwriter 
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The Writers Guild of America, East, announced Wednesday that the Evelyn F. Burkey Award, which recognizes contributions ‘that have brought honor and dignity to writers everywhere,’ will be presented to the Television Academy Foundation’s Archive of American Television.

The archive is the foundation’s continuining collection of more than 600 video interviews with renowned TV professionals in all fields. The archive’s online site gives viewers access to some 2,000 hours of interviews.

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The Burkey Award was established in 1978 to honor the woman who helped create the WGAE in 1953 and was its executive director until 1972. Past recipients include Edward Albee, pictured above, Walter Bernstein and Martin Scorsese. The Burkey Award will be presented at the WGAE ceremony Feb. 5 in New York at the AXA Equitable Center.

-- Susan King

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Susan King

Susan King is a former entertainment writer at the Los Angeles Times who specialized in Classic Hollywood stories. She also wrote about independent, foreign and studio movies and occasionally TV and theater stories. Born in East Orange, N.J., she received her master’s degree in film history and criticism at USC. She worked for 10 years at the L.A. Herald Examiner and came to work at The Times in January 1990. She left in 2016.

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