- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Margaret Edson (b. 1961)
- Creator:
- Purcell, Kim
- Date of Original:
- 2005-08-12
- Subject:
- Teachers--Georgia--Atlanta
Women teachers--Georgia--Atlanta
Kindergarten teachers--Georgia--Atlanta
Women kindergarten teachers--Georgia--Atlanta
Awards--United States
Pulitzer Prizes
Edson, Margaret, 1961-
Dramatists, American--Georgia--Atlanta
Women dramatists, American--Georgia--Atlanta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Margaret Edson. Margaret Edson, a playwright and kindergarten teacher in Atlanta, is best known for Wit, a play about a literary scholar diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Although Edson considers herself first an educator and then a playwright, her play has won many prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1999.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/margaret-edson-b-1961/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "ARTICLE TITLE," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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