Ball, Alan, 1957- (Personal Name)

His Five women wearing the same dress, c1993: t.p. (Alan Ball)

Phone call to author's agent, 12/2/94 (Alan Ball; American; b. 5/13/57; playwright; not the author of Grub street or Ball of fire)

IMDb, Oct. 28, 2009 (Alan Ball; b. May 13, 1957, Atlandta, Georgia, USA; producer, writer, director, actor)

Alan Ball, 2013: ECIP data view (began his career as a playwright; later wrote for the TV sitcoms, Grace under fire and Cybill; Academy Award-winning screenplay writer of American beauty; Emmy Award-winning television shows, Six feet under, and, True blood; author of the 2007 play All That I Will Ever Be, and the film Towelhead, which he adapted and directed the same year; in 2012 he announced that he would step down as executive producer of True Blood, in part, to produce both a new television series and his latest screenplay, What's the Matter with Margie?)

Wikipedia, May 3, 2013 (Alan E. Ball; born May 13, 1957; American writer, director, and producer for film, theatre and television; attend the University of Georgia; graduated 1980 from Florida State University; playwright at the General Nonsense Theater Company in Sarasota, Florida)