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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. Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Albee is the 1,693rd most popular writer (down from 1,525th in 2019), the 2,474th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,873rd in 2019) and the 198th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Edward Albee ranks 1,693 out of 7,302. Before him are Jacopo Sannazaro, Anne Desclos, Michael Cunningham, Mahadevi Varma, François Pierre La Varenne, and Karen Armstrong. After him are Symeon the Metaphrast, Mohamed Choukri, Sima Xiangru, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, James Brendan Connolly, and Enzo of Sardinia.

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Among people born in 1928, Edward Albee ranks 132. Before him are Helen Frankenthaler, Hayden White, James Randi, Al Lettieri, Desmond Morris, and Sol LeWitt. After him are Anne Sexton, Sid Watkins, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Peter Naur, Ion Mihai Pacepa, and Pancho Gonzales. Among people deceased in 2016, Edward Albee ranks 112. Before him are Loris Francesco Capovilla, Maria Teresa de Filippis, Anker Jørgensen, Takahito, Prince Mikasa, Roger Y. Tsien, and Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern. After him are Bata Živojinović, Carmen Pereira, Piet de Jong, Chris Amon, Yves Bonnefoy, and Peter Naur.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward Albee ranks 2,474 out of 20,380. Before him are Bobby Joe Long (1953), Tom Wolf (1948), Henry Bergman (1868), Ma Barker (1873), Michael Cunningham (1952), and Robert Moog (1934). After him are William Wirt (1772), Beau Bridges (1941), Eddie Constantine (1913), Arthur Danto (1924), James Brendan Connolly (1868), and John Gray (1951).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Edward Albee ranks 198. Before him are Robert Wilson (1941), E. Howard Hunt (1918), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815), Dean Koontz (1945), James Oliver Curwood (1878), and Michael Cunningham (1952). After him are James Brendan Connolly (1868), John Gray (1951), Anne Sexton (1928), Patricia Cornwell (1956), Johnston McCulley (1883), and Jack Vance (1916).

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