Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950 – January 30, 2006) was an American playwright. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She received the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989 for her play The Heidi Chronicles.

Wendy Wasserstein was an American playwright whose work probes, with humour and sensibility, the predicament facing educated women who came of age in the second half of the 20th century. Her drama The Heidi Chronicles (1988) was awarded both …

Jan 31, 2006 · Wendy Wasserstein, who spoke for a generation of smart, driven but sometimes unsatisfied women in a series of popular plays that included the long-running Pulitzer Prize winner "The Heidi ...

Aug 18, 2011 · From the late 1970s until her death in 2006 at age 55, playwright Wendy Wasserstein was a force in New York theater.

Feb 7, 2010 · Wendy Wasserstein died on January 30, 2006, after a bout with lymphoma. She was fifty-five years old. She is featured in Making Trouble, the JWA documentary film about women comedians.

Jan 30, 2006 · Wendy Wasserstein, who spoke for a generation of smart, driven but sometimes unsatisfied women in a series of popular plays that included the long-running Pulitzer Prize winner "The Heidi ...

Jan 30, 2006 · The noted American playwright Wendy Wasserstein has died. She was fifty-five-years old, and had been battling cancer. She wrote award winning plays that portrayed modern women with modern...

Jan 31, 2006 · The board and staff of Playwrights Horizons mourn the untimely death of our beloved friend and colleague Wendy Wasserstein. As an artist, Wendy's trailblazing candor, her compassionate ...

Jan 31, 2006 · Wendy Wasserstein, a playwright with strong Seattle ties who depicted the challenges of modern women in "The Heidi Chronicles" and other works, died Monday in New York. She was 55.

Wendy Wasserstein, a Tony-winning playwright, Pulitzer Prize winner, screenwriter, essayist, feminist and professor, was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her play “The Heidi Chronicles” won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1989.