The Life of Edward Albee “The best American playwright since Arthur Miller." A master of ‘ depraved obscenity.' An unflinching dissector of dysfunction. A willfully For about four decades, critics and theater-watchers have been calling Edward Albee names. His harsh wit and language and amazing endings have won him three Pulitzer Prizes and cost him a fourth. Once off- Broadway's leading light, Albee lasted for a close to 20-year drought before capturing his most recent Pulitzer, in 1994. Albee can handle it. He thinks that the acclaim and neglect, the overpraise and underpraise, his 27 plays have earned will even out in the end — as long as he doesn't