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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.
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Apr 19, 2024 · Wendy Wasserstein (born October 18, 1950, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died January 30, 2006, New York City) was an 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. Her drama The Heidi Chronicles (1988) was awarded both a Pulitzer ...
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Jan 31, 2006 · 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 Pulitzer Prize winner...
Aug 18, 2011 · Wendy Wasserstein, 'Lost' And Found The Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright wrote about the struggle by her generation to balance professional and family life. A new biography sheds light on...
- Susan Stamberg
Jan 30, 2006 · 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 Pulitzer Prize winner...
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Aug 17, 2011 · Wendy Wasserstein, 'Lost' And Found. By Susan Stamberg. Published Aug 17, 2011 9:01 PM. Wendy Wasserstein in 1985, beneath a poster for her play <em>Isn't It Romantic</em>....
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 ...
