About Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee III 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). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified as and named the Theater of the Absurd. Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play.
Known for:
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Notable works:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Awards:
Tony Award for Best Play|Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play|Drama Desk Special Award|Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording|Hull-Warriner Award|PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award|St. Louis Literary Award|America Award in Literature|Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences|honorary doctor of the University of Miami|Evelyn F. Burkey Award|star on Playwrights' Sidewalk|Pulitzer Prize for Drama|Nestroy Theatre Prize|Kennedy Center Honors|National Medal of Arts