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Wendy Wasserstein

American playwright

1950 – 2006aged 55

A playwright who won both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play in 1989 for The Heidi Chronicles, which followed a feminist art historian across three decades of American life. She taught as an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell and became one of the few women to reach Broadway's top prizes for playwriting in the same year.

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