Know Edward Albee, author of "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf"

Q.  Who wrote Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, a Tony award winning masterpiece?
- Published on 19 Sep 16

a. Edward Albee
b. Edward Thomas
c. Edward Melby
d. Edward Mellory

ANSWER: Edward Albee
 
Know Edward Albee, author of "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf"Albee’s best known work Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won the Tony Pulitzer Award.
  • He died at the age of 88 in Montauk, NYC after a short illness. He underwent extensive surgery and succumbed after that
  • He is considered one of the most important American playwrights of his time
  • He wrote controversial and intense plays detailing anxiety, disillusionment and death
  • He burst into theatre setting with The Zoo Story(1958)
  • This two character drama showcasing class struggle and disaffection premiered in Berlin in 1959 and went on to Off Broadway in 1960
  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf debates two years later on Broadway and the drunken description of tortured couple George and Martha was even made into a black comedy film in 1966 by Mike Nichols starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
  • Taylor won the best actress award for this play at the Oscars
  • Albee won 3 Pulitzer prices for best drama
  • 1967 for a A Delicate Balance made into a 1973 film starring Katherine Hepburn and Paul Scofield
  • Seascape in 1975
  • Three Tall Women in 1994
  • He also won the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.
  • He started his career in NY’s Greenwich Village where he found a more sympathetic environment in the avante garde scene.

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