Background
ALBEE, Edward was born on March 12, 1928.
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Edward Franklin Albee
Edward ALBEE, American playwright. Awards 1983; Medal, American Academy. National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Education
Albee attended the Clinton High School, then the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, from which he was expelled. He then was sent to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania, where he was dismissed in less than a year. He enrolled at The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut, graduating in 1946.
His formal education continued at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was expelled in 1947 for skipping classes and refusing to attend compulsory chapel. In response to his expulsion, Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is believed to be based on his experiences at Trinity College.
Career
The Death of Bessie Smith, The American Dream, The Sand Box 1961, Zoo Story 1961, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1962, stage adaptation of The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Carson McCullers) 1963, Tiny Alice 1964, Malcolm (from novel by James Purdy) 1966, A Delicate Balance 1966, Everything in the Garden (after a play by Giles Cooper) 1967, Box, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung 1968, All Over 1971, Seascape 1975, Listening 1975, Counting the Ways 1976, The Lady from Dubuque 1977, Lolita (adapted from Vladimir Nabokov) 1979, The Man Who Had Three Arms 1981, Finding the Sun 1982, Walking 1984, Marriage Play 1986-1987. Chairman Brandeis University Creative Arts.
Interests
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Collecting art.
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Nationality
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Ethnicity
His father is Edward Fran...
Awards
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Received three P...
Received three Pulitzer Prizes for drama — for A Delicate Balance (1967), Seascape (1975), and Three Tall Women. Awards 1983; Medal, American Academy.Received three Pulitzer Prizes for drama — for A Delicate Balance (1967), Seascape (1975), and Three Tall Women.
Awards 1983; Medal, American Academy.