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Edward Franklin Albee III ( / ˈɔːlbiː / 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? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994).
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.
Apr 2, 2014 · Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee is considered one of the greatest American playwrights of his generation for his plays including 'The Zoo Story' and 'Who's Afraid of...
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...
He was the leader of a group of young composers and musicians who socialized together and sometimes with painters, sculptors, and other artistic persons in the Village who were part of the various avant-garde movements.
Sep 16, 2016 · 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.
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.
