Wendy Wasserstein was born in Brooklyn in 1950. She received a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College (1971), an M.A. in playwriting from the City College of New York (1973), and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama (1976). She won the Pulitzer Prize, a Tony, and other awards for The Heidi Chronicles (1988). She has adapted that play and an earlier one, Uncommon Women and Others (1977) for television. The struggle women face to find meaning and happiness is an important theme in her work. Wasserstein has also written a screenplay for the movie The Object of My Affection (1998), has adapted a John Cheever story for PBS, and has acted in films and television.

Major dramatic works by Wasserstein

Wasserstein and the Web

This page from the Kennedy Center has a photo of Wasserstein, a brief bio, and some information about the staging of her play The Heidi Chronicles there.

This is an essay by Wasserstein about her writing.

This is Wasserstein's entry at imdb.com.