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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? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994).

  2. 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 Virginia...

  3. Albee spent the 1950s living in Greenwich Village in a number of apartments and working a variety of odd jobs (for example, a telegram delivery person) to supplement his monthly stipend from a trust fund left for him by his paternal grandmother.

  4. Sep 12, 2024 · Edward Albee was an American dramatist and theatrical producer best known for his play Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), which displays slashing insight and witty dialogue in its gruesome portrayal of married life.

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  5. 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.

  6. 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...

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  8. Sep 17, 2016 · Edward Albee, whose death at age 88 on Friday marked the end of his reign as the greatest living American playwright, chiseled his own choice invectives for reviewers over his topsy-turvy...