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Wendy Wasserstein

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Wasserstein commented that her parents allowed her to go to Yale only because they were certain she would meet an eligible lawyer there, get married, and lead a conventional life as a wife and mother. Although appreciative of the critical acclaim for her comedic streak, she described her work as "a
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Wasserstein is described as an author of women's identity crises. "Her heroines—intelligent and successful but also riddled with self-doubt—sought enduring love a little ambivalently, but they did not always find it, and their hard-earned sense of self-worth was often shadowed by the frustrating
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Wasserstein gave birth to a daughter, Lucy Jane, in 1999 when she was 48 years old. The baby, who was conceived via in vitro fertilization, was three months premature and is recorded in Wasserstein's collection of essays,
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During her career, which spanned nearly four decades, Wasserstein wrote eleven plays, winning a Tony Award, a Pulitzer Prize, a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award.
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political act", wherein sassy dialogue and farcical situations mask deep, resonant truths about intelligent, independent women living in a world still ingrained with traditional roles and expectations.
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on January 30, 2006, at age 55. News of her death was unexpected because her illness had not been widely publicized outside the theater community. The night after she died,
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knowledge that American women's lives continued to be measured by their success at capturing the right man." In a conversation with novelist
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Wasserstein was named the President's Council of Cornell Women Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large in 2005.
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Her plays, which explore topics ranging from feminism to family to ethnicity to pop culture, include
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when her father was accused of being a spy. Wasserstein "once described her mother as being like '
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The Wendy Wasserstein Papers, 1954–2006, are available to researchers at the
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replacing Close. While at Yale, she co-wrote a musical with fellow student
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Audio: Wendy Wasserstein at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2005
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Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein
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playing the lead roles. The play was subsequently produced for
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In 1996 she appeared as the guest caller "Linda" on the
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In addition, she wrote the screenplay for the 1998 film
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Award for Distinguished Achievement in American Theatre
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owner Georgette Wasserstein Levis (who died in 2014).
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Brooklyn
Manhattan
Mount Holyoke College
BA
City University of New York, City College
MA
Yale University
MFA
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Tony Award for Best Play
Bruce Wasserstein
playwright
Andrew Dickson White
Cornell University
Tony Award for Best Play
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The Heidi Chronicles
Brooklyn
Poland
Auntie Mame
Bruce Wasserstein
yeshiva
Włocławek
Paterson, New Jersey
Calhoun School
Mount Holyoke College
City College of New York
Yale School of Drama
Mount Holyoke College

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