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	Biography of Edward Albee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Edward Albee was born in Washington, D.C. on March 12, 1928.
		Albee's short play, The Sandbox, was dedicated to his maternal grandmother, to whom he was apparently very close.
		Albee attended the Choate school from 1944 to 1946, when he enrolled at Trinity College, a small liberal arts institution in Hartford, Connecticut.
	library.thinkquest.org /2847/authors/albee.htm (263 words)

	Edward Albee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward Albee was born in Washington, DC and was adopted two weeks later and taken to Westchester County, New York.
		Albee left home when he was in his late teens, later saying in an interview, "They weren't very good at being parents, and I wasn't very good at being a son." He attended the Rye Country Day School, then the Lawrenceville School, where he was expelled.
		Albee is the President of the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Inc., which maintains the William Flanagan Creative Persons Center (a writers and artists colony in Montauk, NY).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Albee (592 words)

	Edward Albee - MSN Encarta
		Edward Franklin Albee was born in Washington, D.C., and adopted as an infant by the American theater executive Reed A. Albee of the Keith-Albee chain of vaudeville and motion picture theaters.
		Albee won a Tony Award in 2002 for The Goat, or Who is Sylvia (2002), a play about a happily married architect who falls in love with a goat.
		Albee’s plays are marked by themes typical of the theater of the absurd, in which characters suffer from an inability or unwillingness to communicate meaningfully or to sympathize or empathize with one another.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761558270 (258 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Edward Albee
		Edward Albee burst onto the American theatrical scene in the late 1950s with a variety of plays that detailed the agonies and disillusionment of that decade and the transition from the placid Eisenhower years to the turbulent 1960s.
		Albee's plays, with their intensity, their grappling with modern themes, and their experiments in form, startled critics and audiences alike while changing the landscape of American drama.
		Born in Washington, D.C., Albee was adopted as an infant by Reid Albee, the son of Edward Franklin Albee of the powerful Keith-Albee vaudeville chain.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3687&source_type=A (740 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Edward Albee
		The Albees named their son after his paternal grandfather, Edward Franklin Albee, a powerful Vaudeville producer who had made the family fortune as a partner in the Keith-Albee Theater Circuit.
		From early on, Edward's mother Frances tried to groom her son to be a respectable member of New York society.
		Edward Albee is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_edward_albee.html (1220 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts features \| Profile: Edward Albee
		Edward was born to a woman called Louise Harvey, whom he has not tried to trace, on March 12 1928; all that is known about her is that is that she was abandoned by the baby's father.
		Albee met Auden (who suggested he write pornographic verse) and engineered a meeting with Thornton Wilder, who looked seriously at his poems and suggested that maybe he ought to be a playwright instead.
		Albee returned to marriage in A Delicate Balance (1966), in which an affluent suburban family is visited by long-time country-club friends Edna and Harry, who, it transpires, have had a vision of existential terror, and have come to stay, indefinitely.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1119811,00.html (3452 words)

	Albee - Edward Albee Resources
		Albee pointed out that this is one of a few of his plays that he hasn't directed yet.
		Albee then recounted a discussion with the critic Walter Kerr who was of the view that the ultimate value of a play depends on the number of people who like it.
		Albee then expressed concern that sometimes playwrights are asked to make their plays simpler or less heavy (although "the plays weigh the same") in an effort to get produced.
	www.artslynx.org /theatre/albee.htm (3065 words)

	Amazon.com: Edward Albee: A Singular Journey: A Biography: Books: Mel Gussow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gussow's biography of Edward Albee is a more-than-fair depiction of the playwright.
		Albee, who prefers to be called a writer who is gay, as opposed to a gay writer, also has kind words for his longtime partner of over twenty years.
		Albee says a gay writer writes about being gay, whether the work is good or not is moot, since the writer knows the subject and is putting in the final word.
	www.amazon.com /Edward-Albee-Singular-Journey-Biography/dp/0684802783 (2610 words)

	Edward Albee
		Albee was born on Mary 12, 1928 in Washington, DC.
		Albee wrote the lyrics to the song, "The Lady of Tearful Regret," while his then mentor, William Flanagan composed the score, which was presented at Carnegie Hall in February of 1959.
		Albee is currently a member of the Dramatists Guild Council, head of the United States chapter of the International Theater Institute, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	cstl-cla.semo.edu /gurnow/albee.htm (1832 words)

	Edward Albee @ Filmbug
		Edward Franklin Albee (born March 12, 1928) is a leading American playwright, for many the most important one alive.
		Edward Albee's plays are decidedly unique; one of his main influences has been Samuel Beckett and he is credited with being one of the first American playwrights of the school of thought known as Absurdism.
		Albee is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council, and President of the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Inc. He received the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980, and in 1996 the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts.
	www.filmbug.com /db/1220 (227 words)

	An Overview of Edward Albee's Career, a CurtainUp Feature
		Edward F. Albee was born in Virginia on March 12th 1928, adopted by Reed and Frances Albee.
		Edward was raised in luxury, in the family's Larchmont mansion, also occupied by Mrs.
		Today Albee remains active, writing, producing and directing his plays, as well as teaching at the School of Theatre of the University of Houston and giving lectures on his work at colleges around the country.
	www.curtainup.com /albee.html (1065 words)

	Review of Mel Gussow's "Edward Albee" by Don Shewey
		Edward Albee has had one of the weirdest lives of any famous American writer now living, as we learn in Mel Gussow's new biography of the 71-year-old three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.
		He was driven to Broadway shows as a child in one of the family's two Rolls-Royces, and every winter the clan decamped from the New York suburb of Larchmont to Palm Beach, traveling to Florida in his grandmother's two private railroad cars hooked to the back of a passenger train.
		Albee's classic portrait of a marriage driven by passionate love-hate is thought by some to pay homage to August Strindberg, by others to be a disguised drama about bitchy queens (a theory Albee has invariably denounced).
	www.donshewey.com /theater_articles/albee_bio.html (492 words)

	Speakers Worldwide, Inc. - Edward Albee
		Edward Albee continues to write plays and direct some of his earlier ones.
		Edward Albee's second Pulitzer Prize winner, Seascape, was described by Brendan Gill in The New Yorker as "the most exquisitely written" of all Albee's plays.
		Albee has been winning richly deserved praise for his performances as a lecturer and platform personality at colleges, universities, and literary festivals.
	www.speakersworldwide.com /Albee.html (662 words)

	Edward Albee Biography -- Academy of Achievement
		Edward Albee was born Edward Harvey in Washington, D.C. At the age of two weeks, he was adopted by Mr.
		Through his family's business, Edward Albee was exposed to the theater at an early age and developed a passionate love for the arts, but his adoptive parents expected him to pursue a more conventional business or professional career.
		Albee's work in the 1960s ranged over a wide variety of forms and styles, from straightforward literary adaptations, such as a stage version of Carson McCullers's novel Ballad of the Sad Café, to frankly experimental works such as the one-acts Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/alb1bio-1 (1524 words)

	EDWARD ALBEE by Don Shewey
		And she praises the work Albee has done as a mentor (his Edward Albee Foundation maintains an artists' colony on the grounds of his Long Island home in Montauk) before mentioning that in her modern drama survey course he has been dropped from the curriculum.
		Playwrights cite Albee's generosity as a colleague (his defense, for instance, of younger writers as a member of the council of the Dramatists' Guild) as well as his pomposity.
		The walls of the apartment Albee rents in a Houston high-rise were covered with large invasive paintings by local art students, the visual art equivalent of stray cats.
	www.donshewey.com /theater_articles/edward_albee.htm (5661 words)

	Edward Albee
		These seminal experiences gave Albee a sardonic, essentially bleak view of human relations that suited the questioning spirit of the '60s, as did his plays' absurdist tone and often experimental techniques.
		Albee has been alternately criticized for subversively creating heterosexual characters within gay themes and for not exploring gay themes at all.
		Albee has said that he is open and proud about his sexual orientation, but that his understanding of the human condition is not limited to sexuality.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/a/albee_edward.htm (491 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Albee, Edward
		Edward Albee holds a problematic position in the histories of American drama and of gay drama.
		Albee's place in the history of gay drama is as ambiguous.
		However, Albee saw himself as a satirist of the American condition and not a dramatist of the gay community.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/albee_e.html (938 words)

	Drama: Edward Albee
		When Albee turned twenty-one, he received from his grandmother a $100,000 trust fund, which enabled him to drop out of Trinity College in Hartford and move to New York City to write plays.
		Albee supplemented the income from his inheritance by working a series of odd jobs, including that of a Western Union messenger.
		In 1960 Albee wrote a trilogy of one-act plays—The Sandbox, The Death of Bessie Smith, and Fam and Yam—which he followed in 1961 with The American Dream and Bartleby, an operatic adaptation of Herman Melville's story.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/drama/albee.htm (475 words)

	CNN - Salon review: 'Edward Albee: A Singular Journey' - August 24, 1999
		In Gussow's scheme, Albee's "singular journey" from initial stardom and promise to the triumph of "Three Tall Women" parallels his growth into self-knowledge (and sobriety).
		Moreover, Gussow's affection for Albee causes him to shy away from a gossipy tone even in his report on Albee's youth in Greenwich Village, when he became part of a hard-drinking gay crowd presided over by his mentor and first partner, composer William Flanagan.
		Frankie Albee was, by all accounts, a character and a half: elegant, aristocratic, bigoted, self-willed, domineering, perverse -- and given, in her later years (when she and Edward, who left home at 21, had effected a fragile reconciliation), to repeating extraordinary stories about her sex life with Reed.
	www.cnn.com /books/reviews/9908/24/edward.abee.salon/index.html (661 words)

	Amazon.ca: Three Tall Women: Books: Edward Albee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Albee's drama of an old woman coming to grips with her life and approaching death earned him his third Pulitzer.
		Albee is able to portray in an unsual way his true feelings about his background as well as his atitude towards the characters that he portrays.
		Albee uses believable situations that are all easily relatable, emphasizing how we deal with our problems and how we deal with ourselves.
	www.amazon.ca /Three-Tall-Women-Edward-Albee/dp/0452274001 (808 words)

	Edward Albee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Edward Albee is a giant and by most accounts a mythological figure in the theatre world.
		Years later, in 1998, I was awarded my first Edward Albee residency and had the honor of spending a summer in Montauk at Albee's famous The Barn.
		Edward is smart and funny, a great story teller, and an animal lover.
	home.earthlink.net /~fmdscrittore/edwardalbee.html (262 words)

	Edward Franklin Albee, III Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Edward Franklin Albee, III, was born on March 12, 1928, and as an infant was adopted by Reed A. and Frances Albee.
		Albee's position in the history of American drama is difficult to assess.
		In 1997 Albee was the recipient of the Steinbeck Award for literary and humanitarian contributions by a writer.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/edward-franklin-albee-iii (1487 words)

	PEN American Center - Edward Albee
		Edward Albee was born on March 12, 1928, and began writing plays 30 years later.
		Albee is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council, and President of The Edward F. Albee Foundation.
		Listen to Edward Albee's remarks on Federico Garcia Lorca at State of Emergency.
	pen.org /page.php/prmID/1012 (130 words)

	Albee, Edward - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		ALBEE, EDWARD [Albee, Edward], 1928-, American playwright, one of the leading dramatists of his generation, b.
		In 2002 two new Albee plays debuted, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, a Tony Award-winning family tragicomedy, and Occupant, a portrait of the artist Louise Nevelson.
		Interview: Playwright Edward Albee discusses his career and the production of his latest play, "The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?"
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-albee-e1d.html (380 words)

	AllRefer.com - Edward Albee (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Edward Albee[al´bE] Pronunciation Key, 1928–;, American playwright, one of the leading dramatists of his generation, b.
		Albee won the Pulitzer Prize for A Delicate Balance (1967), Seascape (1975), and Three Tall Women (1994).
		In 2002 two new Albee plays debuted, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, a Tony Award–winning family tragicomedy, and Occupant, a portrait of the artist Louise Nevelson.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Albee-Ed.html (313 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Edward Albee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Albee is associated with the Theater of the Absurd, the avant-garde school of drama begun in the 1950s that also included Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter.
		As in many Albee works, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" explores the inner lives of characters who are destructive, manipulative, and desperate.
		Beck contends that several of Albee's plays depart from the theater of the absurd, opting instead for reason and resolution.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=136 (362 words)

	EDWARD ALBEE - BOOK HELP WEB PROFILE
		It was a play that was a tough sell in the early 60s as it had strong, explicit language and was the equivalent of an emotional mugging.
		Albee was adopted as an infant by the son of a vaudeville producer.
		Albee's works have won three Pulitzers, an Obie Award, three Tony Awards, a Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award, a National Medal of the Arts, Auger Meadows Award, and recognition from the New York Drama Critics Circle.
	www.bookhelpweb.com /authors/albee/albee.htm (190 words)

	Goshen College \| Edward Albee's The American Dream
		Albee's title, on the other hand, is rich in intellectual and moral substance, since it refers to a host of ideas and feelings associated with the fondest hopes of participants in the American experience, both historic and contemporary.
		Albee has not been able to bring himself to have her carted off by the "van man." She may have been expelled from Mommy and Daddy's apartment, but she has found a new home--and a new set of friends--in the audience of the play.
		Albee adds, "There might be an allegory to be drawn, and have the fantasy child the revolutionary principles of this country that we haven't lived up to yet." Ibid., p.
	www.goshen.edu /~lonhs/GCPUBLICATIONS/DREAM.html (3307 words)

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