United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798Purcell, Kim2005-08-12Encyclopedia 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.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Teachers--Georgia--AtlantaWomen teachers--Georgia--AtlantaKindergarten teachers--Georgia--AtlantaWomen kindergarten teachers--Georgia--AtlantaAwards--United StatesPulitzer PrizesEdson, Margaret, 1961-Dramatists, American--Georgia--AtlantaWomen dramatists, American--Georgia--AtlantaMargaret Edson (b. 1961)Text