Wendy Wasserstein

Wendy Wasserstein was born in Brooklyn and raised in
Manhattan. She received a B. A. from Mount Holyoke College
and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. She is the
author of such plays as Uncommon Women and Others, Isn't it
Romantic, The Sisters Rosensweig, An American Daughter, and
The Heidi Chronicles, for which she received a Tony Award
and the Pulitzer Prize. Ms. Wasserstein has also been the
recipient of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the
Drama Desk Award, and the Outer Critics Circle Award. Wendy
Wasserstein lived in New York City with her daugher, Lucy Jane.