WRITER

Edward Albee

1928 - 2016

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Edward Franklin Albee III ( AWL-bee; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified as and named the Theater of the Absurd. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Albee has received more than 1,651,223 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Edward Albee is the 1,526th most popular writer (down from 1,351st in 2019), the 1,873rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,717th in 2019) and the 164th most popular American Writer.

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Notable Works

The American Dream and Zoo Story
1963
Cy Twombly
Catalogues raisonnés, Catalogs, Exhibitions
1966
The American dream
American drama
1961
Tiny Alice
American drama
1965
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
English drama, Married people, Drama
1962
A delicate balance
American drama, Drama, Family
1966
Malcolm
Drama, Eccentrics and eccentricities, Gay youth
1966
Tiny Alice
American drama
1965
Cy Twombly
Catalogues raisonnés, Catalogs, Exhibitions
Twombly's photographic oeuvre, which did not achieve recognition until late, spans more than sixty years of his career. In this catalogue around a hundred unpublished photographs selected,(just before his death), by the artist himself, he also did the book design. The photographs are accompanied by an essay written by Hubertus V. Amelunxen.00Exhibition: Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels. February/April 2012.
1966
The American Dream and Zoo Story
American drama (dramatic works by one author)
1963
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Plays, American drama, English drama
1962
A delicate balance
American drama, Drama, Family
Agnes and Tobias are long married and remain together out of habit. Agnes' sister, Claire, lives with them and takes refuge from life's perils in alcohol and self-lacerating wit. One night Julia, Agnes and Tobias' daughter, comes home, escaping from her fourth marriage. They are visited by Edna and Harry, their oldest friends, who are deeply disturbed by a great shock they have had. The door is locked and Tobias' family is made to recognize how they have lost love through undervaluing it.
1966

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edward Albee ranks 1,526 out of 7,302. Before him are Laonikos Chalkokondyles, Madame d'Aulnoy, Eduard Mörike, Vasil Bykaŭ, Camilla Läckberg, and Jean François Paul de Gondi. After him are Juan Goytisolo, Catherine of Bologna, Anne Desclos, Carson McCullers, Rainis, and Adolph Freiherr Knigge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Edward Albee ranks 117. Before him are Djivan Gasparyan, Al Lettieri, Paul Elvstrøm, John Stewart Bell, Daisaku Ikeda, and Vyacheslav Tikhonov. After him are Hannah Pick-Goslar, Natalie Zemon Davis, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Bo Diddley, Peter Naur, and Howard S. Becker. Among people deceased in 2016, Edward Albee ranks 97. Before him are David Hamilton, Seymour Papert, André Courrèges, Maria Teresa de Filippis, Paul Elvstrøm, and Andrei Karlov. After him are Anisa Makhlouf, Black, Peter Naur, Jorge Batlle, Michael Massee, and Henry Heimlich.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward Albee ranks 1,873 out of 20,380. Before him are Karen Carpenter (1950), Stacy Keach (1941), Henry Lee Lucas (1936), Megan Fox (1986), Ben Carson (1951), and Robert Ryan (1909). After him are Pat Garrett (1850), Pat Riley (1945), Betty Grable (1916), Carson McCullers (1917), Tony Shalhoub (1953), and Walter A. Shewhart (1891).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Edward Albee ranks 164. Before him are Virginia Henderson (1897), Henry Steel Olcott (1832), Elizabeth George (1949), James Oliver Curwood (1878), Robert Jordan (1948), and Nora Roberts (1950). After him are Carson McCullers (1917), John Dickson Carr (1906), Elizabeth Bishop (1911), Ben Shapiro (1984), Jeffery Deaver (1950), and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807).

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