Edward Albee, best-known as the author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was one of a handful of America’s most important playwrights. He won numerous awards, including three Pulitzer Prizes (for A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and Three Tall Women) and two Tony Awards (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance). He was the recipient of a Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton. He died in 2016 at the age of eighty-eight.