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 ...

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 ...

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.

Through her plays and other writings, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein provided a voice for so many women paving their way on one or more of the multiple paths that the 1960’s and 70’s and modern-day feminism opened up to them.

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.

Jan 30, 2006 · Wendy Wasserstein has won several awards for her work in the theater industry. She received the Best Play award from the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for her play "The...

Wendy Wasserstein, who for three decades, through a series of compassionately comedic dramas, charted the strivings and disappointments of the modern American woman, died early Jan. 30 at the age...