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Edward Franklin Albee III (/ ˈ ɔː l b iː / AWL-bee; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee was an American dramatist and theatrical producer best known for his play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), which displays slashing insight and witty dialogue in its gruesome portrayal of married life.
Edward Albee: A Singular Journey: A Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. The Edward Albee Society is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the study of the life and works of Edward Albee, and the drama and theatre for which his work was in large part the instigator and model.
Sep 17, 2016 · Edward Albee, widely considered the foremost American playwright of his generation, whose psychologically astute and piercing dramas explored the contentiousness of intimacy, the gap between...
Feb 25, 2022 · Edward Albee exploded onto the theater scene at the end of the 1950s with plays that foreshadowed the turbulence of the decades to come. Adopted as an infant, he rebelled against his socially prominent adoptive family, and fled to Greenwich Village to pursue a literary career.
Edward Albee is one of the “Big Four” classic American playwrights, including Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller. His career spans several decades, from the late 1950s to the present, during which he has written nearly 30 plays.
Sep 18, 2016 · Edward Albee, who has died aged 88, has been described as both the first modern American playwright and the last great American playwright after Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur...
Edward Albee, (born March 12, 1928, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died Sept. 16, 2016, Montauk, N.Y.), U.S. playwright. He was the adopted grandson and namesake of a well-known vaudeville theatre manager.
Sep 17, 2016 · Edward Albee, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? among many others, died Friday at the age of 88 following a short illness, according to his ...
Sep 17, 2016 · For over half a century, Edward Albee was the greatest American playwright. His most famous play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?” (1962) was partly meant as an answer to Eugene O’Neill’s “ The Iceman Cometh ” (1946), which repeatedly comes out in favor of illusions and pipe dreams that get a few Bowery drunks through another day.
