Edward Albee was born on March 12, 1928, and began writing plays 30 years later. His plays in order of composition are: The Zoo Story (1958), The Death of Bessie Smith (1959), The Sandbox (1959), Fam and Yam (1959), The American Dream (1960), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961-62, Tony Award), Tiny Alice (1964), A Delicate Balance (1967, Pulitzer Prize; 1996, Tony Award), Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1968), All Over (1971), Seascape (1974, Pulitzer Prize), Listening (1975), Counting the Ways (1976), The Lady from Dubuque (1977-78), Another Part of the Zoo (1981), The Man Who Had Three Arms (1981-82), Finding the Sun (1982-83), Marriage Play (1987), Three Tall Women (1991, Pulitzer Prize), Fragments (1993), The Play About the Baby (1997), The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2000, 2002 Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critic Circle Award) and Occupant (2001).

He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, P.E.N. American, The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, International Theatre Institute, USA (President), and The Edward F. Albee Foundation, Inc. (President). Mr. Albee was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980 and in 1996 received both the Kennedy Center Honor and the National Medal of Arts.