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The official biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein. In Wendy and the Lost Boys, best-selling publisher Julie Salamon explores the life of playwright Wendy Wasserstein's most expertly crafted figure: herself. The first woman playwright to gain a Tony Honor, Wendy Wasserstein was a Broadway titan. But with her high-pitched giggle and unkempt curls, she projected an image of friendliness and familiarity. Everyone realized Wendy Wasserstein. Or thought they performed. Born on October 18, 1950, in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish Jewish immigrant parents, Wendy was the youngest of Lola and Morris Wasserstein's five children. Lola possessed big dreams on her behalf children. They didn't disappoint: Sandra, Wendy's attractive sister, became a high-ranking commercial executive at a time when Lot of money 500 companies were an impenetrable young boys club. Their sibling Bruce became a billionaire superstar of the investment banking world. Yet behind the family's impressive success was a fiercely guarded world of private tragedies.Wendy perfected the family art of secrecy while cultivating a densely filled inner group. Her friends included theatre elite such as playwright Christopher Durang, Lincoln Center Artistic Director Andr Bishop, ex - New York Times theatre critic Frank High, and countless others. But still almost nobody realized that Wendy was pregnant when, at get older 48, she was rushed to Support Sinai Hospital to provide Lucy Jane 90 days premature. The paternity of her little princess remains a secret. During Wendy's tragically early death less than six years later, very few were aware that she was gravely sick. The cherished confidante to so many, Wendy privately endured her ideal heartbreaks by themselves. In Wendy and the Lost Boys, Salamon assembles the fractured pieces, revealing Wendy in full. Though she lived an uncommon life, she spoke to a era of women during a time of great change. Revisiting Wendy's works - The Heidi Chronicles while others - we see Wendy in the free space of the theatre, where her many selves all found voice. Here Wendy spoke in the most romantic of terms about everything that matters most: family and love, dreams, and devastation. And this is the Wendy of Neverland, the Wendy who will never grow old.
