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Edward Albee Edward Albee, 1963.

Edward Albee

American author
Also known as: Edward Franklin Albee
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Edward Albee (born March 12, 1928, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died September 16, 2016, Montauk, New York) was an American dramatist and theatrical producer best known for his play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), which displays slashing insight and witty dialogue in its gruesome portrayal of married life. Albee was the adopted child of a father who had for a time been the assistant general manager of a chain of vaudeville theatres then partially owned by...

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