Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein · Arts & Literature
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright ('The Heidi Chronicles')
1950, Brooklyn, New York, United States — 2006, New York City, United States
United States
Wendy Wasserstein is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright ('The Heidi Chronicles')
Wendy Wasserstein was an American playwright whose 'The Heidi Chronicles' won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play, becoming a defining work about the lives and choices of educated women of her generation. Her plays often drew on her own upbringing in a Jewish family; she was born to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn. She was the first woman to win a solo Tony for Best Play.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright ('The Heidi Chronicles')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
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