Stoppard left school at 17 and would go on to win numerous awards on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2014, he was crowned "the greatest living playwright" by the London Evening Sta

Legendary playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, the five-time Tony winner and Oscar-winning writer behind ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’ and ‘Shakespeare In Love’, has died at the age of 88.