The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer grew up in South Boston on West Fifth Street.

David Lindsay-Abaire (born November 30, 1969) is a playwright, lyricist and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for his play Rabbit Hole, which also earned several Tony Award nominations.

When he was 11, he earned a scholarship from the Boys & Girls Club to Milton Academy. There, he landed in a strange and unfamiliar world of wealth and privilege to which he had to adjust. “From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class,’’ he said, “and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.’’