Edward ALBEE Conversations Theatre of the Absurd Pulitzer Prize Existentialism

by Edward Albee, Edited by Philip C. Kolin

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.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } Conversations with Edward Albee Literary Conversations Series by Edward Albee, Edited by Philip C. Kolin Published by University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 1988. First Edition, first printing. Good hardcover, in very good dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, marking to text - mostly brackets & checkmarks to margins. 8vo, index, laid-in pamphlet from Signature Theatre Company, 223 pages. Part of the Literary Conversations Series, a collection dedicated to preserving interviews with major literary figures. Edward Albee (1928–2016), a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright renowned for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1962), is captured here in 18 interviews spanning 1961 to 1985, offering a window into his creative mind during a period of both acclaim and controversy. Kolin, a noted scholar of American drama, compiled this 223-page volume amid a late 1980s resurgence of interest in Albee, whose career had seen a dip in the 1970s but rebounded with works like The Lady from Dubuque (1980). The University Press of Mississippi, founded in 1970, targeted academic audiences, making this a key resource for theatre studies during a time of renewed focus on post-war American drama. A chronology of Albee’s life, an introduction by Kolin, the interviews, and an index. The conversations, drawn from sources like The Paris Review and The New York Times, cover Albee’s creative process, his views on absurdi

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 1988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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