Albee, though openly homosexual, never considered himself a gay writer but rather “a writer who happen to be gay.” Nevertheless, his plays often exposed and lampooned the dark side of traditional heterosexual unions and the simmering unrest just below the surface of the idyllic American family. Albee moved to New York’s Greenwich Village, a bohemian epicenter of arts and culture, where he began composing plays which criticized American society. He ultimately graduated from the prestigious high school Choate Rosemary Hall, but at Trinity College in Connecticut, he was expelled again. As he bounced from school to school throughout his teens, racking up expulsions from military academies and private schools around the country, he struggled against authority. ![]() ![]() Born in Virginia and adopted shortly thereafter into the wealthy Albee family, Edward Albee never felt fully at home in his adoptive family.
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