April 2006
Edward Albee is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his plays Delicate Balance (1966), Seascape (1975), and Three Tall Women (1994). His 25 plays include the well-known drama, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962), which won a Tony Award, as did The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (2002). He introduced American absurdist drama. In 1997 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Bill Clinton, and last year he received a special Tony for Lifetime Achievement.