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Edward Albee is a playwright best known for such award-winning dramas as The Zoo Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", Tiny Alice, and Three Tall Women. With his confrontational dramas and decidedly unhappy endings, Albee has never been considered a commercial darling of the stage. As Anne Paolucci explained in From Tension to Tonic: The Plays of Edward Albee, he was "the first playwright in the American theatre to capture the feverish contradictions of [the second half of the twentieth century] . . . , translating communication as commonly understood and accepted into a polarization of opposites, a skeptical questioning of 'facts,' substituting irony for statement and paradox for simplistic optimism. His cutting sarcasm is, understandably, one of his greatest achievements." Albee has won a number of major awards for drama, including three Pulitzer Prizes, two Antoinette Perry, or "Tony," Awards, an Obie Award, and the National Medal of Arts.
It is not known for sure where Albee was born or who his real parents were.
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