Tony-Nominated Writer Accused of Plagiarism

British playwright Bryony Lavery has been accused of plagiarizing passages from a book and a magazine in her Tony Award-nominated play about a serial killer and his psychiatrist.

Malcolm Gladwell of the New Yorker and Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis said they had found at least 12 instances of plagiarism in “Frozen,” which was nominated for a Tony this year as best play.

Biographical and thematic details also had been taken from a New Yorker profile Gladwell wrote about Lewis in 1997 and from Lewis’ 1998 book “Guilty by Reason of Insanity,” the two alleged.