Edward Albee

Edward Albee was born in Washington in 1928 to parents he never knew, and was adopted at two weeks old by Reed Albee, heir to a chain of vaudeville theatres. Expelled from a preparatory school and then from a military academy, he graduated from Choate and was expelled from Trinity College in 1947. He broke with his adoptive parents while still young and lived on odd jobs, including as a telegram messenger from 1955 to 1958. He wrote more than thirty plays, three of them awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and taught playwriting at the University of Houston from 1989. He died in Montauk in 2016.

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• TheatreWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Edward Albee · 1962Literature