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 16a. Edward Albee
b. Edward Thomas
c. Edward Melby
d. Edward Mellory
ANSWER: Edward Albee
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.
