Edward Albee (1928–2016)
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Edward Albee was born in Virginia on March 12, 1928. His first produced play, The Zoo Story, opened in Berlin in 1959 before playing at the Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village the following year. In 1960, it won the Vernon Rice Memorial Award. In 1962, his Broadway debut, Who's Afraid of mehr anzeigen Virginia Woolf?, won a Tony Award for best play. It was adapted into a film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in 1966. He wrote about 30 plays during his lifetime including The Sandbox, The American Dream, The Death of Bessie Smith, All Over, and The Play About the Baby. He won the Pulitzer Prize three times for A Delicate Balance in 1966, Seascape in 1975, and Three Tall Women in 1991. Three Tall Women also received Best Play awards from the New York Drama Critics Circle and Outer Critics Circle. He won another Tony Award for The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? and a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 2005. He had died after a short illness on September 16, 2016 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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- Albee, Edward Franklin
- Geburtstag
- 1928-03-12
- Todestag
- 2016-09-16
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Sterbeort
- Montauk, New York, USA
- Wohnorte
- New York, USA
Greenwich Village, New York, USA
Larchmont, New York, USA - Ausbildung
- Trinity College of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Clinton High School (then-Lawrenceville School ∙ then-Lawrenceville School)
Valley Forge Military Academy, Wayne, Pennsylvania
The Choate School, Wallingford, Connecticut - Berufe
- Schriftsteller
- Organisationen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
Dramatists Guild Council
Edward F. Albee Foundation, Inc.
University of Houston
Bayrische Akademie der schönen Künste, Abteilung Literatur, korrespondierendes Mitglied - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama (1999)
National Medal of Arts (1996)
Kennedy Center Honors (1996)
Pulitzer Prize (1967)
Pulitzer Prize (1975)
Pulitzer Prize (1994) (Zeige alle 9)
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement (2005)
Gold Medal in Drama, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1980)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2003) - Agent
- William Morris Agency
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