Happy Birthday Edward Albee!

Posted by Tel Asiado Mar 12, 2008

Great Thinkers Datebook: March 12

Edward Franklin Albee, (19283- ), American playwright / dramatist, is born in Washington, D.C. He is famous for his best-known 1962 play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (The play has nothing to do with the famous English writer Virginia Woolf.)

Edward Albee is known for his clever and often biting commentaries on American life.

His other plays:

• The Zoo Story, 1959
• The Sandbox, 1960
• Tiny Alice, 1965
• A Delicate Balance, 1967, Pulitzer Prize
• Seascape, 1975, Pulitzer Prize
• The Lady from Dubuque, 1980
• The Goat or Who is Sylvia, 2000

Source:

Illustrated Biographical Dictionary, edited by John Clark, Chancellor Press (1994)