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Edward Franklin Albee (1928–2016) was an American playwright, writer, and screenwriter. Born in Washington, D.C., he was educated at Lawrenceville School, Choate Rosemary Hall, and Trinity College. His notable works include *Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?* and *The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?*. Albee served as a university teacher at the University of Houston and resided in Washington, D.C.
He received numerous awards, including the National Medal of Arts, the Nestroy Theatre Prize, a Tony Award for Best Play, and a Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording. Albee was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, and PEN America. He was influenced by Samuel Beckett and died in Montauk.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1928
- Died
- 2016
- Works
- 180
Top works
- Qiṣṣat Ḥadīqat al-ḥayawān wa-thalāth masraḥīyāt ukhrá
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
- American Dream (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
- Kiste und Worte des Vorsitzenden Mao-Tse-Tung
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Film & TV
Writing · Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Edward Franklin Albee III (March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified as and named the Theater of the…
Known for
- The Rest I Make Up — Self2018
- James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times — Himself2014
- Making the Boys — Self2011
- Masterclass — Self2010
- My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story — Self2009
- Perfect Moment — Self1997
- Waiting for Beckett — Self1993
- Louise Nevelson - My Life as a Collage — Self1980
- The Kennedy Center Honors — Self1978
- Dinah! — Self1974
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1928
- Active to
- 2016
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 39
- Total plays
- 84
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines
· 1953 · cited 29,956x
- Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.
· 2000 · cited 28,558x
- The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior
· 2000 · cited 24,780x
- Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,544x
- THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
· 1963 · cited 18,993x
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Quotes
- “What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.”
- “Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.”
- “I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.”
- “You gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are.”
- “One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.”
- “I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say — it leaves me something to do.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Edward Albee, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Edward Franklin Albee III (/ˈɔːlbiː/ AWL-bee; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified as and named the Theater of the Absurd. Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play.
His works are often considered frank examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet.
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