Edward Albee

Mel Gussow's critically-acclaimed biography of the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Seascape, A Delicate Balance, The Zoo Story), who first electrified the American theatre scene in the 1960s with his groundbreaking The Zoo Story followed by the now legendary Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Mel Gussow, critic and author, is a cultural writer for The New York Times. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism

Prologue	p. 13
Eddie	p. 21
Santayanian Finesse	p. 46
Albee's Village Decade	p. 72
Die Zoo-Geschichte	p. 93
YAM	p. 119
Mommy and Daddy	p. 139
Blood under the Bridge	p. 151
FAM	p. 178
"Our" Ballad--and Travels with Steinbeck	p. 194
The Play That Dare Not Speak Its Name	p. 212
Taylor! Burton! Lehman!	p. 232
Balancing Act	p. 247
Flanagan	p. 272
Death and Life	p. 282
Into the Woods	p. 298
The Lady, Lolita, and The Man Who	p. 309
Frankie	p. 336
A Tall Woman	p. 344
A New Balance	p. 375
A New Baby	p. 388
Lost and Found	p. 400
Acknowledgments	p. 405
Chronology of Plays	p. 409
Notes on Sources	p. 411
Selected Bibliography	p. 431
Index	p. 434
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