Edward Albee to Be Honored by Penn Academy of Music & NYPL, Present Poetry Reading
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Edward Albee will be honored with the first Pennsylvania Academy of Music Creativity Award, and present the first public reading of poetry that he wrote while a student at Choate. The event will take place at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music, in Lancaster, on October 15.
The award honors “artists and innovators who have challenged conventional notions to positively impact humanity.” Albee will also discuss the relevance of his early poetry on his later works.
In related news, Albee will also be honored by The New York Public Library, along with illustrator Ashley Bryan, screenwriter and essayist Nora Ephron, and novelist Salman Rushdie at its annual Library Lions black-tie benefit on Monday, November 3, at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Toni Morrison will serve as Master of Ceremonies.
A three time Pulitzer Prize recipient, Albee earned the honor for his plays A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and Three Tall Women; he won Tony Awards for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Goat.
