Albee continued to write plays throughout the 1960's and 1970's. For this play, he received the Pulitzer Prize. After Malcolm closed after only five days, Albee rebounded with the success of A Delicate Balance in 1966.
In 1963, Albee joined with two friends in creating an absurdist group called 'Theater 1964,' which produced, among other things, Beckett's Play and Pinter's The Lover at Cherry Lane Theatre. Over the next decade, Albee lived on the proceeds of his grandmother's trust fund and held jobs as an office boy, record salesman, and Western Union messenger. Later, he credited Wilder with inspiring him to become a playwright, advice he did not follow for a few more years. In 1953, young Albee met playwright Thornton Wilder. He supported himself by writing music programming for WNYC radio. Despite his mother's objections, Edward moved to New York City's artsy Greenwich Village at the age of twenty. During his sophomore year, in 1947, nineteen-year-old Edward was dismissed from yet another school Trinity College claimed that he had failed to attend chapel and certain classes. During his days at Trinity College, Edward gained a modicum of theatre experience as an actor, rather than as a writer. While there, Edward irked his mother by associating with artists and intellectuals whom she found objectionable. After graduating from Choate, Edward enrolled at Trinity College, a small liberal arts school in Hartford, Connecticut. In his senior year at Choate, Edward's first published play Schism appeared in the school literary magazine. In 1945, his poem 'Eighteen' was published in the Texas literary magazine Kaleidoscope. Within a year, Valley Forge dismissed Albee.Įven as a teenager, Edward was a prolific writer. Hoping to inspire some discipline in his wayward son, Reed Albee enrolled his son at the Valley Forge Military Academy. At the age of fifteen, the Lawrenceville School dismissed Albee for cutting classes. During his high school days, he shocked school officials by writing a three-act sex farce entitled Aliqueen. In 1940, twelve-year-old Edward entered the Lawrenceville School, a prestigious boys' preparatory school. He went to afternoon meetings in the family Rolls Royce, he took riding lessons, vacationed in Miami in the winter, and learned to sail on Long Island Sound in the summer. The Albees' affluence meant that Edward's childhood was filled with servants and tutors. From early on, Edward's mother, Frances, worked to groom her son into a respectable member of New York society. Because of his father's and grandfather's involvement in the theatre business, Albee was exposed to theatre throughout his childhood. Young Edward was raised by his adoptive parents in Westchester, New York.
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