Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Tony-winning playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard has died at the age of 88.
The scribe was best known for his stage dramas, The Real Thing, Travesties and Ronsencrantz and Guidlenstern Are Dead, as well as the film, Shakespeare in Love.
His representatives told the BBC Saturday that Stoppard died peacefully at home in Dorset, England, surrounded by his family.
No specific cause was disclosed.
Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla said in a statement to The Standard: "A dear friend who wore his genius lightly, he could and did, turn his pen to any subject, challenging, moving and inspiring audiences, borne from his own personal history.
