Albee, Edward Franklin

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Albee, Edward Franklin (1928– ) US playwright. Albee's debut play The Zoo Story (1959) is a classic text of the Theatre of the Absurd. His best-known play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) is an intense portrait of a destructive marriage. Other works include The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1963). A Delicate Balance (1966) and Seascape (1975) won Pulitzer Prizes.

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