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Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play The Heidi Chronicles .
Wendy Wasserstein (born October 18, 1950, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died January 30, 2006, New York City) American playwright whose work probes, with humour and sensibility, the predicament facing educated women who came of age in the second half of the 20th century.
Jan 31, 2006 · By Charles Isherwood. Jan. 31, 2006. Wendy Wasserstein, who spoke for a generation of smart, driven but sometimes unsatisfied women in a series of popular plays that included the long-running...
Jan 30, 2006 · By Charles Isherwood. Jan. 30, 2006. Wendy Wasserstein, who spoke for a generation of smart, driven but sometimes unsatisfied women in a series of popular plays that included the long-running...
Feb 7, 2010 · In Brief. In 1989, Wendy Wasserstein won the Pulitzer Prize for The Heidi Chronicles and was the first woman playwright to win a Tony Award. In 1973, Wasserstein joined the MFA program at The Yale School of Drama and was the only woman in the playwriting program. Her thesis, Uncommon Women and Others, depicting five women friends over several ...
Jan 30, 2006 · The noted American playwright Wendy Wasserstein has died. She was fifty-five-years old, and had been battling cancer. She wrote award winning plays that portrayed modern women with modern...
Aug 17, 2011 · August 17, 20118:57 AM ET. By. Heller McAlpin. Playwright Wendy Wasserstein belongs to that rare group of beloved writers (which also includes Nora Ephron and Anne Lamott) who make readers feel as ...
