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Gilbert L. Amyot; Silver Spring Lawyer, Playwright

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20080515
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Gilbert L. Amyot, 75, a lawyer who in later years became a playwright, died April 17 at his home in Leisure World in Silver Spring. He had prostate cancer.

Mr. Amyot, who practiced law in the Washington area from 1974 to the mid-1980s, worked for the Air Line Pilots Association, International until 1980. He then worked with the law firm of Thompson, Hine and Flory, now Thompson Hine, in Washington.

He wrote "The Guest Lecturer," a play about the life of Maxwell Perkins, legendary editor at Charles Scribner's Sons for F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner and Thomas Wolfe; and ...

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