Edward Albee was born in Virginia, 1928. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council and was awarded the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980, and in 1996 received the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts. His plays include The Zoo Story (1958), The American Dream (1960), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961-62, Tony Award), A Delicate Balance (1966, Pulitzer Prize; 1996, Tony Award), Seascape (1974, Pulitzer Prize), The Lady from Dubuque (1977-78), Finding the Sun (1982), The Play About the Baby (1997), and The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (2002, Desk Drama Award, Tony Award).
