Edward Albee
Edward Franklin Albee III (/ˈɔːlbiː/ AWL-bee; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright. He was known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), and a rewrite of the book for the unsuccessful musical Breakfast at Tiffany's (1966), an adaptation of Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same name.[1]
Edward Albee | |
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 Edward Albee in the 1980s | |
| Born | March 12, 1928 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | September 16, 2016 (aged 88) Montauck, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Dramatist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1958–2016 |
| Notable works | |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1967, 1975, and 1994) Tony Award (1963 and 2002) National Medal of Arts (1996) Special Tony Award (2005) |
In 1963, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won the Tony Award for Best Play.[2] He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1967 for A Delicate Balance, in 1975 for Seascape, and in 1994 for Three Tall Women.[3]
Albee was openly gay and stated that he first knew he was gay at age 12 and a half.[4]
Albee died on September 16, 2016 at his home in Montauck, New York from complications of diabetes, aged 88.[5]
Works
Plays
Works written or adapted by Albee:[6]
- The Zoo Story (1959)
- The Death of Bessie Smith (1960)
- The Sandbox (1960)
- Fam and Yam (1960)
- The American Dream (1961)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962)
- Tiny Alice (1964)
- A Delicate Balance (1966)
- Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1968)
- All Over (1971)
- Seascape (1975)
- Listening (1976)
- Counting the Ways (1976)
- The Lady from Dubuque (1980)
- The Man Who Had Three Arms (1982)
- Finding the Sun (1983)
- Walking (1984)
- Envy (1985)
- Marriage Play (1987)
- Three Tall Women (1991)
- The Lorca Play (1992)
- Fragments (1993)
- The Play About the Baby (1998)
- The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2000)
- Occupant (2001)
- Knock! Knock! Who's There!? (2003)
- Me Myself and I (2007)
- At Home at the Zoo (2009)
Adaptations
- The Ballad of the Sad Café (1963) (adapted from the novella by Carson McCullers)
- Malcolm (1966) (adapted from the novel by James Purdy)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (adapted from the novel by Truman Capote) (1966)
- Everything in the Garden (adapted from the play by Giles Cooper) (1967)
- Lolita (adapted from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov) (1981)
Opera libretti
- Bartleby (adapted from the short story by Herman Melville) (1961)
- The Ice Age (1963, uncompleted)
Essays
- Stretching My Mind: Essays 1960–2005 (2005).
Edward Albee Media
Edward Albee, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1961
Edward Albee by Irish artist Reginald Gray (The New York Times, 1966), inspired by a photograph taken in 1962 from Bettmann/Corbis.
From Wash D.C. Jan 9, 1997
References
- ↑ "Biography and Video Interview of Edward Albee at Academy of Achievement". Achievement.org. Retrieved 2012-05-21.
- ↑ "Winners". www.tonyawards.com. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
- ↑ "Drama". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2023. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
- ↑ Shulman, Randy (March 10, 2011). "Who's Afraid of Edward Albee?". Metro Weekly. Archived from the original on April 12, 2014.
- ↑ Howard, Adam (September 16, 2016). Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Edward Albee Dead at 88. NBC News. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pulitzer-prize-winning-playwright-edward-albee-dead-88-n649766. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
- ↑ "Works". Edward Albee Society. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
Other websites
Media related to Edward Albee at Wikimedia Commons
- Edward F. Albee Foundation Archived 2012-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
- The Edward Albee Society
- Edward Albee at the Internet Broadway Database
- Edward Albee on IMDb
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