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Edward Albee
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Edward Franklin Albee III (pronounced born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright who is best known for the zoo story (1958), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966) and Three Tall Women (1994). His works are considered well-crafted, often unsympathetic 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 Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, and Eugène Ionesco. Younger American playwrights, such as Paula Vogel, credit Albee's daring mix of theatricalism and biting dialogue with helping to reinvent the post-war American theatre in the early 1960s. Albee continues to experiment in new works, such as The Goat: or, Who Is Sylvia? (2002).

According to Magill's Survey of American Literature (2007), Edward Albee was born somewhere in Virginia (the popular belief is that

he was born in Washington, D.C.). He was adopted two weeks later and taken to Larchmont, New York in Westchester County, where he grew up. Albee's adoptive father, Reed A. Albee, the wealthy son of vaudeville magnate Edward Franklin Albee II, owned several theaters.

Here the young Edward first gained familiarity with the theatre as a child. His adoptive mother, Reed's third wife, Frances tried to raise Albee to fit into their social circles.

Albee attended the Clinton High School, then the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, from which he was expelled. He then was sent to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania, where he was dismissed in less than a year. He enrolled at The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut, graduating in 1946. His formal education continued at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was expelled in 1947 for skipping classes and refusing to attend compulsory chapel. In response to his expulsion, Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is believed to be based on his experiences at Trinity College.

Albee left home for good when he was in his late teens. In a later interview, he said: "I never felt comfortable with the adoptive parents. I don't think they knew how to be parents.
I probably didn't know how to be a son, either." More recently, he told interviewer Charlie Rose that he was "thrown out" because his parents wanted him to become a "corporate gangsta" and didn't approve of his aspirations to become a writer.

Albee moved into New York's Greenwich Village, where he supported himself with odd jobs while learning to write plays. His first play, The Zoo Story, was first staged in Berlin. The less than diligent student later dedicated much of his time to promoting American university theatre. He currently is a distinguished professor at the University of Houston, where he teaches an exclusive playwriting course. His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service[3] and Samuel French, Inc..

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Plays
· The Zoo Story (1958)
· The Death of Bessie Smith (1959)
· The Sandbox (1959)
· Fam and Yam (1959)
· The American Dream (1960)
· Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961–1962)
· The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1963) (adapted from the novella by Carson McCullers)
· Tiny Alice (1964)
· Malcolm (1965) (adapted from the novel by James Purdy)
· A Delicate Balance (1966)
· Breakfast at Tiffany's (1966)
· Everything in the Garden (1967)
· Box (1968)
· All Over (1971)
· Seascape (1974)
· Listening (1975)
· Counting the Ways (1976)
· The Lady From Dubuque (1977–1979)
· Lolita (adapted from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov) (1981)
· The Man Who Had Three Arms (1981)
· Finding the Sun (1982)
· Marriage Play (1986–1987)
· Three Tall Women (1990–1991)
· The Lorca Play (1992)
· Fragments (1993)
· The Play About the Baby (1996)
· Occupant (2001)
· The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (2002)
· Knock! Knock! Who's There!? (2003)
· Peter & Jerry retitled in 2009 as At Home at the Zoo (Act One: Homelife. Act Two: The Zoo Story) (2004)
· Me, Myself and I (2007)
· At Home At The Zoo (2009)