laurence tucker stallings (november 25, 1894 - february 28, 1968) was an american playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, literary critic, journalist, novelist, and photographer. best known for his collaboration with maxwell anderson on the 1924 play "what price glory", stallings also produced a groundbreaking autobiographical novel, "plumes", about his service in world war i, and published an award-winning book of photographs, "the first world war: a photographic history".