found: nuc89-38154: His Sounder, 1986?(hdg. on DHU rept.: Elder, Lonne; usage: Lonne Elder III)
found: LC data base, 03-06-90(hdg.: Elder, Lonne)
found: NUCMC data from Boston University, Dept. of Special Collections for Lonne Elder III collection, [19--](Lonne Elder III; political activist, playwright, screenwriter; b. 1931; d. 1996)
found: Wikipedia, Feb. 5, 2013(Lonne Elder III, b. in Americus, Georgia, Dec. 26, 1927; d. in Woodland Hills, Calif., June 11, 1996; American actor, playwright and screenwriter. In 1973, he became the first African American, with Suzanne de Passe, to be nominated for the Academy Award for writing)
found: The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, accessed January 16, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Elder, Lonne III; dramatist, screenwriter; born in 1931 in Americus, Georgia, United States; his most celebrated drama, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, reflects reality of black experience in the twentieth century; screenplays Sounder and Melinda re-emphasize a commitment to humanistic portrayals of African Americans; was a scriptwriter for the ABC series N.Y.P.D.; with the Negro Ensemble Company was a coordinator of the directors/playwrights' unit, and actor in Ward's Day of Absence (1967-1969); wrote scripts for the series McCloud (1970-1971); was a screenwriter for The Terrible Veil and A Woman Called Moses (1963,1978); famous screenplays include, Part Two, Sounder for ABC and the adaptation of Bustin' Loose (1976,1981); died in1996 in Woodland Hills, California, United States)