On March 12, playwright Edward Albee will celebrate his 83rd birthday. The three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and 1996 National Medal of Arts recipient is known as a brilliant wordsmith whose plays ring with witty and biting dialogue. Albee is an iconoclast whose work is dark, often cynical, and populated by the disaffected. So it may come as a surprise to learn that Edward Albee believes that Thornton Wilders Our Town is the finest American play ever written. The NEAs Jo Reed sat down with Edward Albee to talk to him about Thornton Wilder and Our Town.
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