Peter Shaffer screenplay for "Equus", he was nominated for the 1977 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar but the award went to Alvin Sargent, who wrote the screenplay for "Julia". For writing the screenplay for "Amadeus", Shaffer received both the 1984 Best Screenplay Golden Globe and the 1984 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar. Shaffer was homosexual but did not write explicitly about it. His boyfriend Robert Leonard died in 1990. Shaffer died on June 6, 2016, at the age of ninety while on a trip to the south-west of Ireland. He co-wrote three detective novels with his brother Anthony Shaffer under the pseudonym "Peter Antony".
William Strang wrote short stories but these were not published. William married Agnes McSymon Rogerson (d.1933), also from Dumbarton, in 1885. They had four sons and one daughter. His sons Ian Strang (1886-1952) and David Strang (1887-1967) were both artists. William had at least one granddaughter, Joan Strang, born of David's short-lived marriage to the English soprano Dora Labbette. In 1955 David Strang gifted the bulk of William Strang's etchings to the National Gallery of Scotland, many of which were annotated by David for clarification on subject matter. William Strang William Strang RA (13 February 1859 – 12 April 1921) was a