What is Edward Albee?
{{Infobox writer |name = Edward Albee |image = EdwardAlbee.jpg |caption = Edward Albee in the 1980s |birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1928|3|12}} |birth_place = [[Washington, D.C.]], [[United States|U.S.]] |death_date = {{death date and age|2016|9|16|1928|3|12|mf=y}} |death_place = [[Montauck, New York|Montauck]], [[New York]], U.S. |occupation = Dramatist |nationality = American |period = 1958–2016 |notableworks = {{flatlist|class=nowraplinks| * ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' * ''[[The Zoo Story]]'' * ''[[A Delicate Balance (play)|A Delicate Balance]]'' * ''[[The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?]]'' * ''[[Three Tall Women]]'' }} |awards = {{nowrap|[[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]] <small>(1967, 1975, and 1994)</small>}}<br />[[Tony Award]] <small>(1963 and 2002)</small><br />[[National Medal of Arts]] <small>(1996)</small><br />[[Special Tony Award]] <small>(2005)</small> }} '''Edward Franklin Albee III''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɔː|l|b|iː}} {{respell|AWL|bee}}; March 12, 1928 &ndash; September 16, 2016) was an [[Americans|American]] [[playwright]]. He was known for works such as ''[[The Zoo Story]]'' (1958), ''[[The Sandbox (play)|The Sandbox]]'' (1959), ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' (1962), and a rewrite of the book for the unsuccessful musical ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (1966), an adaptation of [[Truman Capote]]'s 1958 novella of the same name.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/alb1int-1 |title=Biography and Video Interview of Edward Albee at Academy of Achievement |publisher=Achievement.org |accessdate=2012-05-21}}</ref> In 1963, ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' won the Tony Award for Best Play.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Winners|url=https://www.tonyawards.com/winners/year/1963/category/any/show/any/|access-date=2023-03-06|website=www.tonyawards.com|language=en-US}}</ref> He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1967 for ''A Delicate Balance'', in 1975 for ''Seascape'', and in 1994 for ''Three Tall Women''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2023|title=Drama|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-cat