Edward Albee biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Edward Albee

Author Name:

Edward Albee

Born As:

Edward Franklin Albee III

Other Names:

Edward Franklin Albee

Born:

12 Mar 1928

Died:





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Dramatist                          
Selected Works:

Plays:

The Zoo Story - 1958
The Death of Bessie Smith - 1959
The Sandbox - 1959
Fam and Yam - 1959
The American Dream - 1960

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 1961-62, Tony Award, Grammy Award in 1964 in the Best Documentary, Spoken Word or Drama Recording - Other Than Comedy category

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - 1963 - adapted from the novella by Carson McCullers
Tiny Alice - 1964
Malcolm - 1965 - adapted from the novel by James Purdy
A Delicate Balance - 1966 Pulitzer Prize
Breakfast at Tiffany's - 1966 - musical, adapted from the novella by Truman Capote
Everything in the Garden - 1967 - adapted from a play by British playwright Giles Cooper
Box and Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung - 1968
All Over - 1971
Seascape - 1974 Pulitzer Prize
Listening - 1975
Counting the Ways - 1976
The Lady From Dubuque - 1977-79
Lolita - adapted from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov - 1981
The Man Who Had Three Arms - 1981
Finding the Sun - 1982
Marriage Play - 1986-87
Three Tall Women - 1990-91 Pulitzer Prize
The Lorca Play - 1992
Fragments - 1993
The Play About the Baby - 1996
The Goat or Who is Sylvia? - 2000, Tony Award
Occupant - 2001
Knock! Knock! Who's There!? - 2003
Peter & Jerry - Act One: Homelife. Act Two: The Zoo Story - 2004
Me Myself & I -  - 2007

Non Dramatic Writings:

Stretching My Mind: Essays 1960-2005.                          
Was adopted when 2 weeks old by Francis and Reed A.Albee.                          
Pulitzer Prize for drama - 1967
Pulitzer Prize for drama - 1975
Pulitzer Prize for drama - 1994

Best known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, and The Sandbox.