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Shiksa Goddess : Or, How I Spent My Forties
by WENDY WASSERSTEIN
Borzoi Reader | Authors | Wendy Wasserstein: Wendy Wasserstein was born in Brooklyn and raised in Manhattan. She received a B. A. from Mount Holyoke College and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. She is the author of such plays as Uncommon Women and Others, Isn't it Romantic, The Sisters Rosensweig, An American Daughter, and The Heidi Chronicles, for which she received a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Ms. Wasserstein has also been the recipient of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Outer Critics Circle Award. Wendy Wasserstein lives lived in New York City with her daugher, Lucy Jane....and then this, from the same source...
When Wendy Wasserstein turned forty, she made a To Do list composed mostly of items left over from when she turned thrity. The listincluded the annuals: lose weight, exercise, read more, improve female friendships, improve male friendships, and (left over from her second grade To Do list) become a better citizen. At the end of the list were the larger-than-life unavoidables: move, fall in love, and decide about a baby.She died, you see. Dammit. I hate it when people whose work I wanted to know better die. Then I feel like I had the opportunity to get excited about someone living, and I missed it. Still, her work is out there. And I have time. How much time? We just don't know, do we. No we don't. aXis of Wendy Wasserstein/ Shiksa Goddess : Or, How I Spent My Forties/ The Heidi Chronicles : Uncommon Women and Others & Isn't It Romantic (Vintage)/ Seven One-Act Plays/ The Sisters Rosensweig/ Sloth : The Seven Deadly Sins (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities)/ Pamela's First Musical/ An American Daughter/ Bachelor Girls (Vintage)/
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