Wendy Wasserstein: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Dies at 55

Wendy Wasserstein was an American playwright. Born on October 18, 1950, in Brooklyn, New York, she studied at Mount Holyoke, City College and the Yale School of Drama.

Her play The Heidi Chronicles won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play in 1989. She wrote eleven plays over nearly four decades, including Uncommon Women and Others and The Sisters Rosensweig, and the screenplay for The Object of My Affection (1998).

Wasserstein had a daughter, Lucy Jane, in 1999. Her brother Bruce was a prominent investment banker. She died of lymphoma at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York on January 30, 2006, at age 55.

Achievements: Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for The Heidi Chronicles (1989).

Birth: October 18, 1950 - Brooklyn, New York.

Profession: Playwright.

Interesting Facts: At Yale she co-wrote a musical with Christopher Durang.