Letters from MaxIn 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished, two time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, intensely curious and intensely gifted poet in remission from paediatric cancer. Over the next four yearsin which Ritvo's illness returned and his health began to decline, even as his productivity bloomedthe two traded a series of letters that spark with urgency, humour, and the