Wendy Wasserstein: American playwright (1950–2006)
Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright.
She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play The Heidi Chronicles.
Her plays, which explore topics ranging from feminism to family to ethnicity to pop culture, include The Sisters Rosensweig, Isn't It Romantic, An American Daughter, Old Money, and her last work which opened in 2005, Third.
Wasserstein was hospitalized with lymphoma in December 2005 and died on January 30, 2006, aged 55.
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