1. Edward Albee
By Kayla Sanford

2. Back in the day

3. About him Edward Albee was born Edward Harvey in Washington dc
At the age of two weeks, he was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Reed Albee of Larchmont, New York
renamed Edward Franklin Albee III
Edward Albee knew that he was adopted, but he has never attempted to locate his birth parents.

4. Edward Albee was exposed to the theater at an early age
developed a passionate love for the arts
his adoptive parents expected him to pursue a more conventional business or professional career
he found himself at odds with his adoptive family over their expectations for him and his own artistic ambitions.

5. He was expelled from two private schools before graduating from Choate,
dropped out of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut midway through his sophomore year.
At 20, he broke with his family and moved to Greenwich Village. He never saw his father again, and would not see his mother for 17 years.

6. the next decade, Albee lived off of a small inheritance from his grandmother,
Enthralled with the artistic ferment of Manhattan in the 1950s, he absorbed every innovation in art, music, literature and the theater
he finally found his calling in writing for the theater.

7. At age 30, he completed his first major work, The Zoo Story
At age 30, he completed his first major work, The Zoo Story. The play received its world premiere in Berlin, Germany in 1959, and opened Off-Broadway the following year.
The Sandbox
The American Dream
The Death of Bessie Smith

8. His first Broadway production, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
His first Broadway production, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, was a runaway success and a critical sensation. The play received a Tony Award
Albee was enshrined in the pantheon of American dramatists alongside Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams.

9. Albee's adoptive father, Reed Albee, died before the success of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,
in 1965, Edward Albee attempted a reconciliation with his adoptive mother, Frances
Albee worked hard at the relationship until his mother's death in 1989.

10. With the profits from Virginia Woolf, Albee created the Edward F
With the profits from Virginia Woolf, Albee created the Edward F. Albee Foundation in 1967.
The foundation sponsors a summer artists' colony in Montauk, Long Island, where the playwright makes his summer home.
The Pulitzer Committee finally honored Albee in 1967 for his metaphysical drawing room drama A Delicate Balance.

11. In the 1970s, he was drinking heavily and had fallen far behind in his taxes and later quit drinking
from 1989 to 2003 taught playwriting at the University of Houston
comeback with Three Tall Women in 1994.
In 1996, Albee was one of the recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors and was awarded the National Medal of Arts

12. the American Theater Wing presented Edward Albee with a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, recognizing him as America's greatest living playwright
Me Myself and I opened at New York's Playwrights Horizon in Admiring reviews and enthusiastic audiences confirmed that in his ninth decade, Albee's work has lost none of its power.

13. What he looks like today