Wendy Wasserstein was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.
11 Facts About Wendy Wasserstein
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Wendy Wasserstein received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play The Heidi Chronicles.
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Wendy Wasserstein "once described her mother as being like 'Auntie Mame'".
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Claims that Schleifer was a playwright are probably apocryphal, as contemporaries did not recall this and the assertion only appeared once Wendy Wasserstein had won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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Wendy Wasserstein's 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.
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Wendy Wasserstein is described as an author of women's identity crises.
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Wendy 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.
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Wendy Wasserstein wrote the libretto for the opera Best Friends, based on Clare Boothe Luce's play The Women, but it was uncompleted when she died.
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Wendy Wasserstein gave birth to a daughter in 1999 when she was 48 years old.
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Wendy Wasserstein, who was not married, never publicly identified her daughter's father.
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Wendy Wasserstein was hospitalized with lymphoma in December 2005 and died at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on January 30,2006, at age 55.