Edward albee

Hilton Als on the playwright Edward Albee, who was celebrated but not fully appreciated for works including “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

Read 176 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. The Zoo Story is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee. His first play, it wa…

Mr. Albee, the Pulitzer-winning playwright of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Three Tall Women,” among other dramas, charted the contentiousness of intimacy and the gap between self-delusion and truth in contemporary life.

The acclaimed playwright was known for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "A Delicate Balance."

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Edward Albee, ca. late 1960s

Mr. Albee, the Pulitzer-winning playwright of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Three Tall Women,” among other dramas, charted the contentiousness of intimacy and the gap between self-delusion and truth in contemporary life.

Here's a picture of a relatively young Edward Albee and his cat "Boy": Image: NYC 1963, photographer unknown Thanks to Peaches for sending me to this site yesterday, where there are all sorts of famous writers and their cats, but Albee is absent. Yet his plays about animals, human and otherwise (The Zoo Story, Seascape, The Goat Or, Who Is Sylvia?), do certainly suggest nonhuman creatures inspired him. "We are all animals, are we not?" he inquires provokingly in an interview. Here's another…

“Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.” ― Edward Albee

The Zoo Story and Other Plays by Edward Albee