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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 several of her plays for television, and wrote the screenplay for the movie The Object of MyAffection (1998). She has also adapted a John Cheever story for PBS, and has acted in films and television.

Major works by Wasserstein

Uncommon Women and Others (1977)
Isn't It Romantic (1983)
The Heidi Chronicles (1988)
The Sisters of Rosenzweig (1992)
The Object of My Affection (1998)
Old Money (2000)

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.

This is an essay by Wasserstein about her writing.

This is Wasserstein's entry at imdb.com.