id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-64 Edward Albee - Wikipedia .html text/html 5698 765 76 Edward Franklin Albee III (/ˈɔːlbiː/ AWL-bee; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Albee's most iconic play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theatre on October 13, 1962, and closed on May 16, 1964, after five previews and 664 performances.[14] The controversial play won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1963 and was selected for the 1963 Pulitzer Prize by the award's drama jury, but was overruled by the advisory committee, which elected not to give a drama award at all.[15] The two members of the jury, John Mason Brown and John Gassner, subsequently resigned in protest.[16] An Academy Award-winning film adaptation was released in 1966 starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-64.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-64.txt