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Edward Albee


Born
in Washington, District of Columbia, The United States
March 12, 1928

Died
September 16, 2016

Genre
Theater, Literature & Fiction


Noted American playwright Edward Franklin Albee explored the darker aspects of human relationships in plays like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) and Three Tall Women (1991), which won his third Pulitzer Prize.

People know Edward Franklin Albee III for works, including The Zoo Story , The Sandbox and The American Dream .
He well crafted his works, considered often unsympathetic examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflected a mastery and Americanization of the theater of the absurd, which found its peak in European playwrights, such as Jean Genet, Samuel Barclay Beckett, and Eugène Ionesco. Younger Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel credits daring mix of theatricalism and biting dialogue of Albee with ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 106,026 ratings · 3,999 reviews · 184 distinct works • Similar authors
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wo...
4.06 avg rating — 70,441 ratings — published 1962 — 110 editions
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The American Dream & The Zo...
3.93 avg rating — 9,735 ratings — published 1959 — 48 editions
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The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
3.92 avg rating — 6,964 ratings — published 2003 — 30 editions
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The Zoo Story
3.91 avg rating — 3,118 ratings — published 1959 — 10 editions
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Three Tall Women
3.91 avg rating — 2,982 ratings — published 1994 — 29 editions
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The Zoo Story and Other Plays
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,847 ratings — published 1959 — 10 editions
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A Delicate Balance
3.92 avg rating — 2,527 ratings — published 1966 — 48 editions
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
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3.77 avg rating — 1,086 ratings — published 1963 — 33 editions
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The Zoo Story & The Sandbox
3.97 avg rating — 951 ratings — published 1961 — 8 editions
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Seascape
3.70 avg rating — 722 ratings — published 1975 — 26 editions
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Series by Edward Albee

The Collected Plays, Vol. 1... The Collected Plays, Vol. 2... The Collected Plays, Vol. 3...
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“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee
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“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
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“I write to find out what I'm talking about.”
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