A course in playwriting at Smith College inspired this author of "The Heidi Chronicles"
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'Heidi Chronicles' Playwright Wendy Wasserstein - The Washington ...  Jan 31, 2006 ... "The Heidi Chronicles" won a Tony as best new play, as well as the Pulitzer ... The play was inspired by news headlines, specifically the ... that she take a summer playwriting course at nearby Smith College. ... about a young TV writer whose parents keep insisting that she find a nice Jewish doctor to marry.
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Amazon.com: The Heidi Chronicles. (9780822205104): Wendy ...  Buy The Heidi Chronicles. on Amazon.com  FREE SHIPPING on qualified ... Wendy Wasserstein is the author of many plays, including The Heidi Chronicles, for ... the 1990s, Wasserstein takes us from Heidi's high school and college days, ... This collection, anchored of course by "The Heidi Chronicles," attests to this fact.
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The Heidi Chronicles - Drama for Students | Encyclopedia.com  The Heidi Chronicles - The Heidi ChroniclesWENDY WASSERSTEIN ... AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY ... While her colorful family served as inspiration for many of her plays, ... Holyoke College, taking her first playwriting class at nearby Smith College. ... Still uncertain of what course to take in life, Wasserstein applied to both the...
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The Heidi Chronicles - Dictionary definition of The Heidi Chronicles ...  AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY ... Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles is her best-known play. ... While her colorful family served as inspiration for many of her plays, ... Holyoke College, taking her first playwriting class at nearby Smith College. .... In the course of the conversation, Susan disavows her feminist political past.
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Writing with Dyslexia: The Education and Early Work of Wendy ...  Her most well known work, The Heidi Chronicles, earned her a Pulitzer Prize and a ... on her educational experience, her writing process, and her life as a writer. .... box of educational traditions  and of the craft of playwriting she entered into. .... The theater courses at Smith College were an important turning point for the...
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Wendy Wasserstein | Playbill  The Heidi Chronicles Playbill - Opening Night. The Heidi ... Excerpt from "Miami" Writer. Production ... Writer. An American Daughter Playbill - March 1997.
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How to Become a Writer: Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf - Professor ...  Apr 6, 2011 ... Ideas About the Novel is a prophetic book that all writers must own. ... The narrators' ability to reflect on their hardships with such serenity is inspiring. ... a writer, he earned a living as a mechanic and book seller (in Basel). ... Siddhartha (1922), Der Steppenwolf (1927) [Steppenwolf], Narziss und Goldmund.
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THEATER REVIEW - Little Laughter in "Heidi Chronicles" - NYTimes ...  Apr 12, 1992 ... "THE HEIDI CHRONICLES," the play by Wendy Wasserstein that won both the 1989 Pulitzer Prize and Broadway's Tony Award, is at the Studio ... lighthearted moments in this version of the life and times of the title character. The story covers the highlights in the life of a young woman named Heidi Holland.
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Wendy Wasserstein, 1950-2006: Playwright won Tony for 'Heidi ...  Jan 30, 2006 ... Both "The Heidi Chronicles" and "The Sisters Rosensweig" got their start at the ... While primarily a playwright, Wasserstein also wrote for TV and the movies, ... of the best-selling children's book "Pamela's First Musical" (1996).
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Swarthmore College English Literature Majors (Alumni and Current ...  "Scarlet Letters" - a one-woman exploration of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel written and directed by Patrick Ross '15 with original music by Kimaya Diggs '15,...
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Spring 2015 Course Descriptions :: Department of English ...  Monsters represent a broader commentary on the individual, race relations, survival ... To that end, we will examine such texts as The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Saga of the ... and Jazz is well represented by Bessie Smith, "The Empress of the Blues. ...... We will focus on plays written for the popular stage between the death of...
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Smith vs. Whitman vs. Bard vs. Skidmore vs. Sarah Lawrence vs. BU ...  I know a thing or two about creative writing, and Barnard is definitely the best ... Skidmore and Sarah Lawrence both have good reputations for...
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The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel - The New York Times  In the following interview, done a few weeks ago, Truman Capote presents his own views on .... on a deep-inside page, this headline: Wealthy Farmer, 3 of Family Slain. ... McClain, president of Mr. Clutter's alma mater, Kansas State University. ... After all, there was an unsolved murder case, and the people in the town were...
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Sylvia Plath - Wikipedia  Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Born in Boston, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College at the University of Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a poet and writer. ... While living in Winthrop, eight-year-old Plath published her first poem in the Boston Herald's children's...
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David Mamet at Work - The New Yorker  Nov 17, 1997 ... After his Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross (1984), his play about ... He has written twenty-two plays, six collections of essays, two novels, and fourteen ... has been Mamet's best friend since their days at Goddard College, in Vermont, .... she came out to call him in to dinner while he was raking leaves.
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PAMELA'S FIRST MUSICAL - We Too Were Children, Mr. Barrie  Oct 17, 2013 ... WENDY WASSERSTEIN IS BEST KNOWN as a playwright. Her 1988 play The Heidi Chronicles won the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, the ... She wrote a movie, a novel, essays, memoirs, books of non-fiction, teleplays, and, of course, a children's book. Pamela's First Musical is, no surprise, about theater.
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Program of the 119th Annual Convention of the Modern ... - JStor  foreign language and comparative literature sessions, child care, and the ...... Looking Backward to Look Forward: Women, Folklore Studies, and the MLA ..... Espionage and Literature: The Author-Spy from the .... In the Middle of Life's Course: Women in Mid-Career .... Rereading Hawthorne's "Chiefly about War Matters".
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Wendy Wasserstein - Wikipedia  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. ... Pamela's First Musical, written with Cy Coleman and David Zippel, based on...
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EWRT 211 Course Packet By Amy Leonard De Anza College  Aug 30, 2013 ... of you who don't mind writing, I hope this course helps foster a ...... Why did you choose to come to De Anza College, and what will you do ...... Reflection demonstrates an excellent understanding of author's ...... York Times Best Seller list, and that the eventual film adaptation will ...... Willa Cather, My Antonia.
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Dian Fossey - Psychology History  When she was only three, her mother divorced her alcoholic father and she didn't see ... Fossey stayed occupied with her job and she also wrote several articles for the ... and became a visiting associate professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. ... In September of that same year, Gorillas in the Mist was published.
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Wendy Wasserstein | Jewish Women's Archive  In 1989, with her play The Heidi Chronicles, she won a Pulitzer Prize and ... In a slightly different key, her 1983 one-act play Tender Offer, produced at the...