Coordinates	50°57′1″N5°46′7″N
Name	Edward Albee
Caption	Edward Albee, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1961
Birthdate	March 12, 1928
Birthplace	Washington D.C.
Occupation	Dramatist
Nationality	American
Period	1958–present
Notableworks	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The Zoo Story The American Dream The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
Influences	Theatre of the Absurd
Influenced	Paula Vogel
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1967,1975,1994) Tony Award (1963, 2002) National Medal of Arts (1996) Special Tony Award (2005)

Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright who is best known for The Zoo Story (1958), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966) and Three Tall Women (1994). His works are considered well-crafted, often unsympathetic examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, and Eugène Ionesco. Younger American playwrights, such as Paula Vogel, credit Albee's daring mix of theatricalism and biting dialogue with helping to reinvent the post-war American theatre in the early 1960s. Albee continues to experiment in new works, such as (2002).

Biography

of 1987]] According to Magill's Survey of American Literature (2007), Edward Albee was born somewhere in Virginia (the popular belief is that he was born in Washington, D.C.). He was adopted two weeks later and taken to Larchmont, New York in Westchester County, where he grew up. Albee's adoptive father, Reed A. Albee, the wealthy son of vaudeville magnate Edward Franklin Albee II, owned several theaters. Here the young Edward first gained familiarity with the theatre as a child. His adoptive mother, Reed's third wife, Frances tried to raise Albee to fit into their social circles.

Albee attended the Clinton High School, then the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, from which he was expelled. He then was sent to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania, where he was dismissed in less than a year. He enrolled at The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut, graduating in 1946. His formal education continued at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was expelled in 1947 for skipping classes and refusing to attend compulsory chapel. In response to his expulsion, Albee's play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is believed to be based on his experiences at Trinity College. Albee left home for good when he was in his late teens. In a later interview, he said: "I never felt comfortable with the adoptive parents. I don't think they knew how to be parents. I probably didn't know how to be a son, either." More recently, he told interviewer Charlie Rose that he was "thrown out" because his parents wanted him to become a "corporate gangsta and didn't approve of his aspirations to become a writer.

Albee moved into New York's Greenwich Village, where he supported himself with odd jobs while learning to write plays. His first play, The Zoo Story, was first staged in Berlin. The less than diligent student later dedicated much of his time to promoting American university theatre. He currently is a distinguished professor at the University of Houston, where he teaches an exclusive playwriting course. His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service and Samuel French, Inc..

Honors

A member of the Dramatists Guild Council, Albee has received three Pulitzer Prizes for drama—for A Delicate Balance (1967), Seascape (1975), and Three Tall Women (1994); a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement (2005); the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1980); as well as the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts (both in 1996).

Albee is the President of the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Inc., which maintains the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center, a writers and artists colony in Montauk, New York. Albee's longtime partner, Jonathan Thomas, a sculptor, died on May 2, 2005, from bladder cancer.

In 2008, in celebration of Albee's eightieth birthday, a number of his plays were mounted in distinguished Off Broadway venues, including the historic Cherry Lane Theatre. The playwright directed two of his one-acts, The American Dream and The Sandbox there. These were first produced at the theater in 1961 and 1962, respectively.

Plays

The Zoo Story (1958)

The Death of Bessie Smith (1959)

The Sandbox (1959)

Fam and Yam (1959)

The American Dream (1960)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1961–1962)

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1963) (adapted from the novella by Carson McCullers)

Tiny Alice (1964)

Malcolm (1965) (adapted from the novel by James Purdy)

A Delicate Balance (1966)

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1966)

Everything in the Garden (1967)

Box (1968)

All Over (1971)

Seascape (1974)

Listening (1975)

Counting the Ways (1976)

The Lady From Dubuque (1977–1979)

Lolita (adapted from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov) (1981)

The Man Who Had Three Arms (1981)

Finding the Sun (1982)

Marriage Play (1986–1987)

Three Tall Women (1990–1991)

The Lorca Play (1992)

Fragments (1993)

The Play About the Baby (1996)

Occupant (2001)

The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (2002)

Knock! Knock! Who's There!? (2003)

Peter & Jerry retitled in 2009 as At Home at the Zoo (Act One: Homelife. Act Two: The Zoo Story) (2004)

Me, Myself and I (2007)

At Home At The Zoo (2009)

Essays

Stretching My Mind: Essays 1960–2005 (Avalon Publishing, 2005)

Quotes

"What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?"

"A usefully lived life is probably going to be, ultimately, more satisfying."

"Writing should be useful. If it can't instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness there's no point in doing it."

"If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly."

"That's what happens in plays, yes? The shit hits the fan."

"Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely."

"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."

"All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want to art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time."

Discography

Mark Richman & William Daniels in The Zoo Story by Edward Albee - Directed by Arthur Luce Klein (LP, Spoken Arts SA 808)

Awards and nominations

; Awards

1960 Drama Desk Award Vernon Rice Award - The Zoo Story

1963 Tony Award for Best Play - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1967 Pulitzer Prize for Drama - A Delicate Balance

1975 Pulitzer Prize for Drama - Seascape

1994 Pulitzer Prize for Drama - Three Tall Women

1996 National Medal of Arts

2002 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play - The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?

2002 Tony Award for Best Play - The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?

2005 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement

2008 Drama Desk Award Special Award

; Nominations

1964 Tony Award for Best Play - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

1965 Tony Award for Best Author of a Play - Tiny Alice

1965 Tony Award for Best Play - Tiny Alice

1967 Tony Award for Best Play - A Delicate Balance

1975 Drama Desk Award Outstanding New Play - Seascape

1975 Tony Award for Best Play - Seascape

1976 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Director of a Play - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1994 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Play - Three Tall Women

2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama - The Play About the Baby

2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama - The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?

2005 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The Pulitzer Prize committee for the Best Play in 1963 recommended Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, but the Pulitzer board, who have sole discretion in awarding the prize, rejected the recommendation, due to the play's perceived vulgarity, and no award was given that year.

References

External links

Guardian (UK) Profile of Edward Albee, The Guardian, 2004

Edward F. Albee Foundation website

"Interviews with Edward Albee", TonyAwards

Notes on a Colloquy with Edward Albee, Artslynx

Performance by Edward Albee, Long House Theatre

Cherry Lane Theatre website

"The Friars Club"

Who's afraid of Edward Albee, Laura Parker, Intelligent Life, 2009

Solomon, Rakesh H. Albee in Performance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.

Albee with Joe Cino at benefit for the Caffe Cino

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Coordinates	50°57′1″N5°46′7″N
Name	Virginia Woolf
Birthname	Adeline Virginia Stephen
Birthdate	January 25, 1882
Birthplace	London, England
Deathdate	March 28, 1941
Deathplace	near Lewes, East Sussex, England
Spouse	Leonard Woolf (1912–1941)
Notableworks	To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, , A Room of One's Own
Occupation	Novelist, Essayist, Publisher, Critic
Influences	William Shakespeare, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, Emily Bronte, Daniel Defoe, E. M. Forster

Adeline Virginia Woolf (; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

Early life

Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London in 1882. Her mother, a renowned beauty, Julia Prinsep Stephen (born Jackson) (1846–1895), was born in India to Dr. John and Maria Pattle Jackson and later moved to England with her mother, where she served as a model for Pre-Raphaelite painters such as Edward Burne-Jones. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a notable historian, author, critic and mountaineer. The young Virginia was educated by her parents in their literate and well-connected household at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington. Her parents had each been married previously and been widowed, and, consequently, the household contained the children of three marriages. Julia had three children from her first husband, Herbert Duckworth: George Duckworth, Stella Duckworth, and Gerald Duckworth. Her father Leslie Stephen was married to Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray (1840–1875), and they had one daughter: Laura Makepeace Stephen, who was declared mentally disabled and lived with the family until she was institutionalised in 1891. Leslie and Julia had four children together: Vanessa Stephen (1879), Thoby Stephen (1880), Virginia (1882), and Adrian Stephen (1883).

Sir Leslie Stephen's eminence as an editor, critic, and biographer, and his connection to William Thackeray (he was the widower of Thackeray's youngest daughter), meant that his children were raised in an environment filled with the influences of Victorian literary society. Henry James, George Henry Lewes, Julia Margaret Cameron (an aunt of Julia Stephen), and James Russell Lowell, who was made Virginia's honorary godfather, were among the visitors to the house. Julia Stephen was equally well connected. Descended from an attendant of Marie Antoinette, she came from a family of renowned beauties who left their mark on Victorian society as models for Pre-Raphaelite artists and early photographers. Supplementing these influences was the immense library at the Stephens' house, from which Virginia and Vanessa (unlike their brothers, who were formally educated) were taught the classics and English literature. , 1866]]

According to Woolf's memoirs, her most vivid childhood memories, however, were not of London but of St. Ives in Cornwall, where the family spent every summer until 1895. The Stephens' summer home, Talland House, looked out over Porthminster Bay, and is still standing today, though somewhat altered. Memories of these family holidays and impressions of the landscape, especially the Godrevy Lighthouse, informed the fiction Woolf wrote in later years, most notably To the Lighthouse.

The sudden death of her mother in 1895, when Virginia was 13, and that of her half-sister Stella two years later, led to the first of Virginia's several nervous breakdowns. She was, however, able to take courses of study (some at degree level) in Greek, Latin, German and history at the Ladies’ Department of King’s College London between 1897 and 1901, and this brought her into contact with some of the early reformers of women’s higher education such as Clara Pater, George Warr and Lilian Faithfull (Principal of the King’s Ladies’ Department). Her sister Vanessa also studied Latin, Italian, art and architecture at King’s Ladies’ Department.

The death of her father in 1904 provoked her most alarming collapse and she was briefly institutionalised. were also influenced by the sexual abuse she and Vanessa were subjected to by their half-brothers George and Gerald Duckworth (which Woolf recalls in her autobiographical essays A Sketch of the Past and 22 Hyde Park Gate).

Throughout her life, Woolf was plagued by periodic mood swings and associated illnesses. Though this instability often affected her social life, her literary productivity continued with few breaks until her suicide.

Bloomsbury

regalia; Virginia Woolf is the bearded figure on the far left]] After the death of their father and Virginia's second nervous breakdown, Vanessa and Adrian sold 22 Hyde Park Gate and bought a house at 46 Gordon Square in Bloomsbury.

Woolf came to know Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Rupert Brooke, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Duncan Grant, Leonard Woolf and Roger Fry, who together formed the nucleus of the intellectual circle of writers and artists known as the Bloomsbury Group. Several members of the group attained notoriety in 1910 with the Dreadnought hoax, which Virginia participated in disguised as a male Abyssinian royal. Her complete 1940 talk on the Hoax was discovered and is published in the memoirs collected in the expanded edition of The Platform of Time (2008). In 1907 Vanessa married Clive Bell, and the couple's interest in avant garde art would have an important influence on Virginia's development as an author.

Virginia Stephen married writer Leonard Woolf in 1912. Despite his low material status (Woolf referring to Leonard during their engagement as a "penniless Jew") the couple shared a close bond. Indeed, in 1937, Woolf wrote in her diary: "Love-making – after 25 years can’t bear to be separate ... you see it is enormous pleasure being wanted: a wife. And our marriage so complete." The two also collaborated professionally, in 1917 founding the Hogarth Press, which subsequently published Virginia's novels along with works by T.S. Eliot, Laurens van der Post, and others. The Press also commissioned works by contemporary artists, including Dora Carrington and Vanessa Bell.

The ethos of the Bloomsbury group encouraged a liberal approach to sexuality, and in 1922 she met the writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West, wife of Harold Nicolson. After a tentative start, they began a sexual relationship, which, according to Sackville- West, was only twice consummated. In 1928, Woolf presented Sackville-West with , a fantastical biography in which the eponymous hero's life spans three centuries and both genders. Nigel Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West's son, wrote "The effect of Vita on Virginia is all contained in Orlando, the longest and most charming love letter in literature, in which she explores Vita, weaves her in and out of the centuries, tosses her from one sex to the other, plays with her, dresses her in furs, lace and emeralds, teases her, flirts with her, drops a veil of mist around her". After their affair ended, the two women remained friends until Woolf's death in 1941. Virginia Woolf also remained close to her surviving siblings, Adrian and Vanessa; Thoby had died of an illness at the age of 26.

Work

Woolf began writing professionally in 1900, initially for the Times Literary Supplement with a journalistic piece about Haworth, home of the Brontë family.

Her first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915 by her half-brother's imprint, Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd. This novel was originally entitled Melymbrosia, but Woolf repeatedly changed the draft. An earlier version of The Voyage Out has been reconstructed by Woolf scholar Louise DeSalvo and is now available to the public under the intended title. DeSalvo argues that many of the changes Woolf made in the text were in response to changes in her own life. and Woolf at Garsington, 1923.

Woolf is considered one of the greatest innovators in the English language. In her works she experimented with stream-of-consciousness and the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters. Woolf's reputation declined sharply after World War II, but her eminence was re-established with the surge of Feminist criticism in the 1970s.

Her work was criticised for epitomising the narrow world of the upper-middle class English intelligentsia. Some critics judged it to be lacking in universality and depth, without the power to communicate anything of emotional or ethical relevance to the disillusioned common reader, weary of the 1920s aesthetes. She was also criticised by some as an anti-semite, despite her being happily married to a Jewish man. This anti-semitism is drawn from the fact that she often wrote of Jewish characters in stereotypical archetypes and generalisations, including describing some of her Jewish characters as physically repulsive and dirty. The overwhelming and rising 1920s and 30s anti-semitism possibly influenced Virginia Woolf. She wrote in her diary, "I do not like the Jewish voice; I do not like the Jewish laugh." However, in a 1930 letter to the composer, Ethel Smyth, quoted in Nigel Nicolson's biography,Virginia Woolf, she recollects her boasts of Leonard's Jewishness confirming her snobbish tendencies, "How I hated marrying a Jew- What a snob I was, for they have immense vitality." In another letter to her dear friend Ethel Smyth, Virginia gives a scathing denunciation of Christianity, seeing it as self-righteous "egotism" and stating "my Jew has more religion in one toe nail—more human love, in one hair." Virginia and her husband Leonard Woolf actually hated and feared 1930s fascism with its anti-semitism knowing they were on Hitler's blacklist. Her 1938 book Three Guineas was an indictment of fascism.

Virginia Woolf's peculiarities as a fiction writer have tended to obscure her central strength: Woolf is arguably the major lyrical novelist in the English language. Her novels are highly experimental: a narrative, frequently uneventful and commonplace, is refracted—and sometimes almost dissolved—in the characters' receptive consciousness. Intense lyricism and stylistic virtuosity fuse to create a world overabundant with auditory and visual impressions.

To the Lighthouse (1927) is set on two days ten years apart. The plot centres around the Ramsay family's anticipation of and reflection upon a visit to a lighthouse and the connected familial tensions. One of the primary themes of the novel is the struggle in the creative process that beset painter Lily Briscoe while she struggles to paint in the midst of the family drama. The novel is also a meditation upon the lives of a nation's inhabitants in the midst of war, and of the people left behind. It also explores the passage of time, and how women are forced by society to allow men to take emotional strength from them.

Orlando (1928) has a different quality from all Virginia Woolf's other novels suggested by its subtitle, "A Biography", as it attempts to represent the character of a real person and is dedicated to Vita Sackville-West. It was meant to console Vita for being a girl and for the loss of her ancestral home, though it is also a satirical treatment of Vita and her work. In Orlando the techniques of historical biographers are being ridiculed; the character of a pompous biographer is being assumed in order for it to be mocked.

The Waves (1931) presents a group of six friends whose reflections, which are closer to recitatives than to interior monologues proper, create a wave-like atmosphere that is more akin to a prose poem than to a plot-centered novel.

Her last work, Between the Acts (1941) sums up and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: the transformation of life through art, sexual ambivalence, and meditation on the themes of flux of time and life, presented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation—all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic narrative encompassing almost all of English history. This book is the most lyrical of all her works, not only in feeling but in style, being chiefly written in verse. While Woolf's work can be understood as consistently in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by G.E. Moore, among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism, it is not a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals.

Her works have been translated into over 50 languages, by writers such as Jorge Luis Borges and Marguerite Yourcenar.

Death

After completing the manuscript of her last (posthumously published) novel, Between the Acts, Woolf fell into a depression similar to that which she had earlier experienced. The onset of World War II, the destruction of her London home during the Blitz, and the cool reception given to her biography of her late friend Roger Fry all worsened her condition until she was unable to work. On 28 March 1941, Woolf put on her overcoat, filled its pockets with stones, and walked into the River Ouse near her home and drowned. Woolf's body was not found until 18 April 1941. Her husband buried her cremated remains under an elm in the garden of Monk's House, their home in Rodmell, Sussex.

In her last note to her husband she wrote: }}'''

Modern scholarship and interpretations

Recently, studies of Virginia Woolf have focused on feminist and lesbian themes in her work, such as in the 1997 collection of critical essays, Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings, edited by Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer. Controversially, Louise A. DeSalvo reads most of Woolf's life and career through the lens of the incestuous sexual abuse Woolf suffered as a young woman in her 1989 book Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on her Life and Work.

Woolf's fiction is also studied for its insight into shell shock, war, class and modern British society. Her best-known nonfiction works, A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938), examine the difficulties female writers and intellectuals face because men hold disproportionate legal and economic power and the future of women in education and society.

Irene Coates's book Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf: A Case for the Sanity of Virginia Woolf holds that Leonard Woolf's treatment of his wife encouraged her ill health and ultimately was responsible for her death. This is not accepted by Leonard's family but is extensively researched and fills in some of the gaps in the traditional account of Virginia Woolf's life. Victoria Glendinning's book Leonard Woolf: A Biography, which is even more extensively researched and supported by contemporaneous writings, argues that Leonard Woolf was not only supportive of his wife but enabled her to live as long as she did by providing her with the life and atmosphere she needed to live and write. Accounts of Virginia's supposed anti-semitism (Leonard was jewish) are not only taken out of historical context but greatly exaggerated. Virginia's own diaries support this view of the Woolfs' marriage.

Though at least one biography of Virginia Woolf appeared in her lifetime, the first authoritative study of her life was published in 1972 by her nephew Quentin Bell.

In 1992, Thomas Caramagno published the book ''The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness."

Hermione Lee's 1996 biography Virginia Woolf provides a thorough and authoritative examination of Woolf's life and work.

In 2001 Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska edited The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. Julia Briggs's Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life, published in 2005 is the most recent examination of Woolf's life. It focuses on Woolf's writing, including her novels and her commentary on the creative process, to illuminate her life. Thomas Szasz's book My Madness Saved Me: The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf (ISBN 0-7658-0321-6) was published in 2006.

Rita Martin’s play Flores no me pongan (2006) considers Woolf's last minutes of life in order to debate polemical issues such as bisexuality, Jewishness and war. Written in Spanish, the play was performed in Miami under the direction of actress Miriam Bermudez.

Depictions

Michael Cunningham's 1998 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Hours, focused on three generations of women affected by Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway. In 2002, a film version of the novel was released starring Nicole Kidman as Woolf, a role for which she won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress. The film also starred Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep.

Bibliography

Novels

The Voyage Out (1915)

Night and Day (1919)

Jacob's Room (1922)

Mrs Dalloway (1925)

To the Lighthouse (1927)

(1928)

The Waves (1931)

The Years (1937)

Between the Acts (1941)

Short story collections

Monday or Tuesday (1921)

A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944)

Mrs Dalloway's Party (1973)

The Complete Shorter Fiction (1985)

"Biographies"

Virginia Woolf published three books to which she gave the subtitle "A Biography":

(1928, usually characterised Novel, inspired by the life of Vita Sackville-West)

(1933, more explicitly cross-genre: fiction as "stream of consciousness" tale by Flush, a dog; non-fiction in the sense of telling the story of the owner of the dog, Elizabeth Barrett Browning), reprinted in 2005 by Persephone Books

(1940, usually characterised non-fiction, however: "[Woolf's] novelistic skills worked against her talent as a biographer, for her impressionistic observations jostled uncomfortably with the simultaneous need to marshall a multitude of facts.")

Non-fiction books

Modern Fiction (1919)

The Common Reader (1925)

A Room of One's Own (1929)

On Being Ill (1930)

The London Scene (1931)

The Common Reader: Second Series (1932)

Three Guineas (1938)

The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942)

The Moment and Other Essays (1947)

The Captain's Death Bed And Other Essays (1950)

Granite and Rainbow (1958)

Books and Portraits (1978)

Women And Writing (1979)

Collected Essays (four volumes)

Drama

(performed in 1923, revised in 1935, and published in 1976)

Autobiographical writings and diaries

A Writer’s Diary (1953) – Extracts from the complete diary

Moments of Being (1976)

A Moment's Liberty: the shorter diary (1990)

The Diary of Virginia Woolf (five volumes) – Diary of Virginia Woolf from 1915 to 1941

Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897–1909 (1990)

Travels With Virginia Woolf (1993) – Greek travel diary of Virginia Woolf, edited by Jan Morris

The Platform of Time: Memoirs of Family and Friends, Expanded Edition, edited by S. P. Rosenbaum (London, Hesperus, 2008)

Letters

Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters (1993)

The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1888–1941 (six volumes, 1975–1980)

Paper Darts: The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf (1991)

Prefaces, contributions

Selections Autobiographical and Imaginative from the Works of George Gissing ed. Alfred C. Gissing, with an introduction by Virginia Woolf (London & New York, 1929)

Biographies

Virginia Woolf by Nigel Nicolson. New York, Penguin Group. 2000

Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972; Revised editions 1990, 1996

"Vanessa and Virginia" by Susan Sellers (Two Ravens, 2008; Harcourt 2009) [Fictional biography of Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell]

The Unknown Virginia Woolf by Roger Poole. Cambridge UP, 1978.

The Invisible Presence: Virginia Woolf and the Mother-Daughter Relationship by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman. Louisiana State University Press, 1986.

Virginia Woolf and the politics of style, by Pamela J. Transue. SUNY Press, 1986. ISBN 0887062865.

The Victorian heritage of Virginia Woolf: the external world in her novels, by Janis M. Paul. Pilgrim Books, 1987. ISBN 0937664731.

Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse, by Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 1988. ISBN 1555460348.

Virginia Woolf: the frames of art and life, by C. Ruth Miller. Macmillan, 1988. ISBN 0333448804.

Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work by Louise DeSalvo. Boston: Little Brown, 1989

A Virginia Woolf Chronology by Edward Bishop. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1989.

A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf by Jane Dunn. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990

Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life by Lyndall Gordon. New York: Norton, 1984; 1991.

Virginia Woolf and war, by Mark Hussey. Syracuse University Press, 1991. ISBN 0815625375.

The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness by Thomas D. Caramago. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1992

Virginia Woolf by James King. NY: W.W. Norton, 1994.

Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf by Panthea Reid. New York: Oxford UP, 1996.

Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee. New York: Knopf, 1997.

Granite and Rainbow: The Hidden Life of Virginia Woolf by Mitchell Leaska. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf, by Jane Goldman. Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN 0521794587.

Virginia Woolf and the nineteenth-century domestic novel, by Emily Blair. SUNY Press, 2002. ISBN 0791471195.

Virginia Woolf: becoming a writer, by Katherine Dalsimer. Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN 0300092083.

Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman by Ruth Gruber. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005

My Madness Saved Me: The Madness and Marriage of Virginia Woolf by Thomas Szasz, 2006

Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life, by Julia Briggs. Harcourt, 2006. ISBN 0156032295.

The Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury by Sarah M. Hall, Continuum Publishing, 2007

Virginia Woolf and the Visible World, by Emily Dalgarno. Cambridge University Press, 2007. ISBN 0521033608,.

A Life of One's Own: A Guide to Better Living through the Work and Wisdom of Virginia Woolf by Ilana Simons, New York: Penguin Press, 2007

Sudden Endings: 13 Profiles in Depth of Famous Suicides by M. J. Meaker, Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964, p. 250-269: "The Fatal Game: Virginia Woolf".

Notes

External links

Biography of Virginia Woolf on the Yale Modernism Lab

Listen to Virginia Woolf's BBC Broadcast (29 April 1937) 'Words Fail Me'

Rare recordings of Virginia Woolf, Conan Doyle, and others

Monk's House information at the National Trust

The Virginia Woolf Collection at the Victoria University Library Special Collections

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Neal Marshad is an American film and television producer, director, cinematographer, Internet strategist, and designer. He was born on April 25, 1952 in Peekskill, New York and grew up in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. Starting in 1971, Neal attended New York University, Tisch School of the Arts for Film and TV.

Career Timeline

After graduating New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1974, Marshad produced and photographed films for NBC’s Saturday Night Live over a 20 year period, starting in 1978.

In 1982, Marshad won his first Emmy award for outstanding achievement in directing and cinematography for his work for CBS Sports’ coverage of Super Bowl XVI

In 1983, Marshad formed Neal Marshad Productions, as an entity to produce television shows and corporate television programs.

In 1989, Marshad produced and directed the film The Conspiracy of Silence with actress Kathleen Turner.

In 1993, while working for IBM Latin America, creating a film about making the Vatican Library accessible online, Marshad pioneered streaming video on the internet, and was first to stream a video on a BBC’s website in 1995.

In 1996, Marshad formed Marshad Technology Group and was hired by clients including Chanel, Neiman Marcus Group, La Prairie, and the BBC to strategize their internet businesses. In the same year, he was commissioned by Speedo, the swimwear manufacturer, to create and launch Speedo.com. He was the first to enable email communication between Olympic athletes and sports fans online. This was for the Olympics Summer games in Atlanta, Georgia.

Neal Marshad was director of photography (videographer) for the Shoah Foundation Visual History Project interviews in West Hampton, New York. Under the direction of Steven Spielberg, the Foundation has collected the permanent testimony of over 52,000 holocaust survivors, liberators, rescuers, and war crimes trial participants.

Marshad collaborated with playwright Edward Albee to create videos of his performances at Longhouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York in 1999.

Marshad is currently an executive producer for EuroCinema, the Video-On-Demand television network available specializing in European box office films that is in 30 million United States homes.

Marshad was hired in November 2010 by Iron Chef America Cat Cora to design her new website CatCora.com.

External links

# http://www.marshad.com # http://caudalie-usa.com/ # Marshad Technology Group/Neal Marshad Productions' Facebook Page # NYT.com Style Section article

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Artistic Director Molly Smith presents the design for its new Mead Center for American Theater in 2007.]] Molly Smith is the artistic director of Arena Stage in Washington D.C.. She has been focused on new play development for the past 30 years while at Arena Stage as well as Perseverance Theatre in Douglas, Alaska, the theater she founded and led for 19 years. She founded Arena's downstairs series, which has held readings and workshopped some sixty plays, half of which have gone on to full productions. Smith has commissioned numerous world premieres including Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive and Mineola Twins, Tim Acito’s The Women of Brewster Place, Moises Kaufman’s 33 Variations, Charles Randolph-Wright's Blue, Zora Neale Hurston's lost American play Polk County and Passion Play, a cycle by Sarah Ruhl. Her directorial work has also been seen at the Shaw Festival in Canada, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, and Centaur Theatre in Montreal, and includes the shows South Pacific, Mack and Mabel, Anna Christie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Smith has served as Literary Advisor to the Sundance Theatre Lab and formed the Arena Stage Writers Council, composed of leading American playwrights. Smith brings artists of international serves as a member of the Board of the Theatre Communications Group as well as the Center for International Theatre Development. She directed two feature films, Raven's Blood and Making Contact, and received Honorary Doctorates from both Towson and American Universities.

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Category:American theatre directors Category:Living people

Coordinates	50°57′1″N5°46′7″N
Name	Kathleen Turner
Birth date	June 19, 1954
Birth place	Springfield, Missouri, U.S.
Birth name	Mary Kathleen Turner
Website	http://www.kathleen-turner.com
Spouse	Jay Weiss (1984–2007)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1978–present}}

Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone, The War of the Roses, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Prizzi's Honor. She is currently guest starring in Californication on Showtime.

Early life

Turner was born in Springfield, Missouri, the daughter of Patsy (née Magee) and Allen Richard Turner, a U.S. Foreign Service officer who grew up in China (where Turner's great-grandfather had been a Methodist Christian missionary). Her father, a diplomat, had been illegally imprisoned by the Japanese Empire for four years during the World War II. As a girl, Turner lived in Canada, Venezuela, and England, and she was living in Cuba at the time that Fidel Castro took over the government - and then the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba, forcing the staff members of the American embassy in Havana to leave the country. Turner has two brothers and one sister. While attending high school in England, she was a gymnast, and she also took classes at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

In her early years, Turner was interested in performing. Her father did not encourage her: "My father was of missionary stock," she later explained, "so theater and acting were just one step up from being a streetwalker, you know? So when I was performing in school, he would drive my mom [there] and sit in the car. She'd come out at intermissions and tell him, 'She's doing very well.'"

Kathleen graduated from the American School in London in 1972. Her father died of a coronary thrombosis during that same year, and then his family members moved back to the United States. Kathleen attended Southwest Missouri State University at Springfield for two years (where a fellow classmate was John Goodman), then earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland in Baltimore County in 1977. During that period, Turner acted in several productions directed by the film and stage director Steve Yeager.

Career

Body Heat

In 1978, Turner made her television debut in the NBC daytime soap The Doctors as the second Nola Dancy Aldrich. She made her film debut in 1981 as the ruthless Matty Walker in the thriller Body Heat, a role which would bring her to international prominence. Empire Magazine cited the film in 1995 when it named her one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History. The New York Times wrote in 2005 that, propelled by her "jaw-dropping movie debut [in] Body Heat... she built a career on adventurousness and frank sexuality borne of robust physicality." In the 1980s, she controversially boasted that "on a night when I feel really good about myself, I can walk into a room, and if a man doesn't look at me, he's probably gay." Romancing the Stone was a surprise hit: she won a Golden Globe for her role in the film and it became one of the top-ten-grossing movies of 1984. Turner teamed up again with Douglas and DeVito the following year for its sequel, The Jewel of the Nile.

Several months before Jewel, Turner starred in Prizzi's Honor with Jack Nicholson, winning a second Golden Globe award, and later starred in Peggy Sue Got Married which co-starred Nicolas Cage. For Peggy Sue, she received a 1986 Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

In 1988's toon-noir Who Framed Roger Rabbit, she was the speaking voice of cartoon femme fatale Jessica Rabbit, intoning the famous line, "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way." Her uncredited, sultry performance was acclaimed as "the kind of sexpot ball-breaker she was made for." (Amy Irving provided Jessica Rabbit's singing voice in the scene in which the character first appears in the movie.) That same year she also appeared in Switching Channels, which was a loose remake of the 1940 hit film His Girl Friday.

Turner appeared in the 1986 song "The Kiss of Kathleen Turner" by Austrian techno-pop singer Falco. In 1989, Turner teamed up with Douglas and DeVito for a third time, in The War of the Roses, this time as Douglas' disillusioned wife. The New York Times praised the trio, saying that "Mr. Douglas and Ms. Turner have never been more comfortable a team ... each of them is at his or her comic best when being as awful as both are required to be here ... [Kathleen Turner is] evilly enchanting." In that film, Turner played a former gymnast, and, as in other roles, she did many of her own stunts. (She broke her nose filming 1991's V.I. Warshawski).

Slowed by disease

Turner remained an A-list film star leading lady until the early nineties when rheumatoid arthritis seriously restricted her activities and her movie career went into rapid decline. She was diagnosed in 1992, after suffering "unbearable" pain for about a year. By the time she was diagnosed, she "could hardly turn her head or walk, and was told she would end up in a wheelchair". The play transferred to Broadway in 2002 to similar critical reaction.

In 2005, Kathleen Turner beat out a score of other contenders (including Jessica Lange, Frances McDormand, and Bette Midler)}}

As Martha, Turner received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play (losing out to Cherry Jones). The production was transferred to London's Apollo Theatre in 2006. She starred in Sandra Ryan Heyward's one-woman show, Tallulah, which she toured across the U.S.

(2010) She is presently portraying Sister Jamison Connelly in Matthew Lombardo’s drama “High.”

Personal life

Turner married the real estate entrepreneur Jay Weiss of New York City in 1984, and they had one child, their daughter Rachel Ann Weiss who was born on October 14, 1987. Turner was born into a Methodist Christian family, but she has said that she has "taken on a certain amount of Jewish tradition and identity" since marrying her Jewish husband and raising their daughter in Judaism.

By the late 1980s, Turner had acquired a reputation for being difficult: what The New York Times called "a certifiable diva". She admitted that she had developed into "not a very kind person", and the actress Eileen Atkins referred to her as "an amazing nightmare". but The New Yorker quoted Turner saying that "the fire was unfortunate but could have happened at a McDonald's."

As a result of her altered looks and weight gain from her arthritis treatment, The New York Times published this statement in 2005, "Rumors began circulating that she was drinking too much. She later said in interviews that she didn't bother correcting the rumors because people in show business hire drunks all the time, but not people who are sick". Turner has had well-publicized problems with alcohol, which she used as an escape from the pain and symptoms of acute rheumatoid arthritis. Turner has admitted that owing to her illness she was in constant unbearable agony and that as a result the people she was closest to would suffer from it as she was constantly drinking to relieve the pain and it made her a very difficult person. A few weeks after leaving the production of the play The Graduate in November 2002, Ms. Turner was admitted into the Marworth hospitial in Waverly, Pa. for the treatment of drinking too much alcohol. "I have no problem with alcohol when I'm working", Ms. Turner explained: "It's when I'm home alone that I can't control my drinking ... I was going toward excess. I mean, really! I think I was losing my control over it. So it pulled me back."

Memoirs/Interviews

Turner (in collaboration with Gloria Feldt) wrote her memoir, Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on my Life, Love, and Leading Roles, published in 2008. Nicolas Cage filed suit against her for claiming he had been arrested for DUI twice and once stole a chihuahua he liked; Turner has since publicly apologized. During an interview on The View, Turner apologized for any distress she may have caused Cage regarding an incident that took place twenty years earlier.

Filmography

{| class="wikitable sortable" ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- |1981 |Body Heat |Matty Walker |Nominated — BAFTA Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer to Leading Film RolesNominated — Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress |- |1983 |The Man with Two Brains |Dolores Benedict | |- |1984 |Romancing the Stone |Joan Wilder |Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyLos Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress also for Crimes of Passion |- |1984 |A Breed Apart |Stella Clayton | |- |1984 |Crimes of Passion |Joanna Crane / China Blue |Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress also for Romancing the StoneSant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actress |- |1985 |Prizzi's Honor |Irene Walker |Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or ComedySant Jordi Award for Best Foreign Actress |- |1985 |The Jewel of the Nile |Joan Wilder | |- |1986 |Peggy Sue Got Married |Peggy Sue |National Board of Review Award for Best ActressNominated — Academy Award for Best ActressNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyNominated — Saturn Award for Best Actress |- |1987 |Julia and Julia |Julia | |- |1987 |Switching Channels |Christy Colleran | |- |1988 |Who Framed Roger Rabbit |Jessica Rabbit |(voice) |- |1988 |The Accidental Tourist |Sarah Leary | |- |1989 |Tummy Trouble |Jessica Rabbit |(voice) |- |1989 |The War of the Roses |Barbara Rose |Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |- |1990 |Roller Coaster Rabbit |Jessica Rabbit |(voice) |- |1991 |V.I. Warshawski |Victoria 'V.I.' Warshawski | |- |1993 |Trail Mix-Up |Jessica Rabbit |(voice) |- |1993 |Naked in New York |Dana Coles | |- |1993 |Undercover Blues |Jane Blue | |- |1993 |House of Cards |Ruth Matthews | |- |1994 |Serial Mom |Beverly R. Sutphin |Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress |- |1994 | The Simpsons |Stacy Lavelle (voice) | 1 episode |- |1995 |Moonlight and Valentino |Alberta Trager | |- |1997 |Bad Baby |Mom |(voice) |- |1997 |A Simple Wish |Claudia | |- |1997 |The Real Blonde |Dee Dee Taylor | |- |1999 |The Virgin Suicides |Mrs. Lisbon | |- |1999 |Baby Geniuses |Elena Kinder | |- |2000 |Cinderella |Claudette | |- |2000 |Beautiful |Verna Chickle | |- |2000 |Prince of Central Park |Rebecca Cairn | |- |2000 | King of the Hill | Miss Liz Strickland (voice) | 3 episodes |- |2001 |Friends | Charles Bing/Helena Handbasket | 3 episodes |- |2006 |Monster House |Constance |(voice) |- |2006 | Law & Order | Rebecca Shane | 1 episode |- |2006 | Nip/Tuck | Cindy Plumb | 1 episode |- |2008 |Marley & Me |Ms. Kornblut | |- |2009 |Californication |Sue Collini |10 episodes |- |2012 |Roger Rabbit 2 |Jessica Rabbit |(voice) |}

References

External links

Kathleen Turner Official Site

2006 Article on Turner on Theatre.com

Interview and profile in The Guardian (March 18, 2000)

Turner's interview for Arthritis Today

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Coordinates	50°57′1″N5°46′7″N
Name	George Grizzard
Birthname	George Cooper Grizzard, Jr.
Birth date	April 01, 1928
Birth place	Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, U.S.
Death date	October 02, 2007
Death place	Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Yearsactive	1955–2006
Domesticpartner	William Tynan

George Cooper Grizzard, Jr. (April 1, 1928 – October 2, 2007) was an American actor of film and stage. He appeared in more than 40 films, dozens of television programs and a number of Broadway plays.

Life and career

Grizzard was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, the son of Mary Winifred (née Albritton) and George Cooper Grizzard, an accountant.

Grizzard memorably appeared as an unscrupulous United States senator in the film Advise and Consent in 1962. His other theatrical films included the drama From the Terrace with Paul Newman (1960), the Western story Comes a Horseman with Jane Fonda (1978) and a Neil Simon comedy, Seems Like Old Times.

In more recent years, he guest-starred several times on the NBC television drama Law & Order as defense attorney Arthur Gold. He also portrayed President John Adams in the Emmy Award-winning WNET-produced PBS mini-series The Adams Chronicles.

Grizzard made his Broadway debut in The Desperate Hours in 1955. He was a frequent interpreter of the plays of Edward Albee, having appeared in the original 1962 production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Nick, as well as the 1996 revival of A Delicate Balance and the 2005 revival of Seascape. He also starred in You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running.

In 1980 he won an Emmy for his work in The Oldest Living Graduate. He starred as reporter Richard Larsen in The Deliberate Stranger, a television movie about serial killer Ted Bundy. He won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for A Delicate Balance. Additional Broadway credits include The Creation of the World and Other Business, The Glass Menagerie, The Country Girl, The Royal Family, and California Suite.

He would also appear in the Golden Girls as George Devereaux, the late husband of Blanche Devereaux; as well as Jamie Devereaux, George's brother.

In 2001, Grizzard played Judge Dan Haywood in a stage production of Judgment at Nuremberg opposite Maximilian Schell under the production of actor Tony Randall. Grizzard appeared as Big Daddy in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof at the Kennedy Center in 2004.

Grizzard's last film appearance was in Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers.

He was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2002.

Death

Grizzard died in Manhattan of complications from lung cancer. He is survived by his partner, William Tynan, who was also a stage and TV actor, until he became a Time Arts Reporter.

Selected Filmography

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956–1962) (TV)

The Twilight Zone (1960–1963) (TV)

From the Terrace (1960)

Thriller (1960) (TV)

Advise and Consent (1962)

Ben Casey (1963) (TV)

Dr. Kildare (1964) (TV)

The Adams Chronicles (1976) (TV)

Hawaii 5-0 (1978) (TV)

Comes a Horseman (1978)

The Oldest Living Graduate (1980) (TV)

Seems Like Old Times (1980)

Wrong is Right (1982)

Trapper John M.D. (1984) (TV)

Bachelor Party (1984)

(1985) (TV)

The Cosby Show (1985) (TV)

The Deliberate Stranger (1986) (TV)

Murder, She Wrote (1985–1988) (TV)

The Golden Girls (1988–1990) (TV)

3rd Rock from the Sun (1997–1998) (TV)

Small Time Crooks (2000)

Wonder Boys (2000)

Law & Order (1992–2000) (TV)

Flags of our Fathers (2006)

References

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Coordinates	50°57′1″N5°46′7″N
Name	Charlie Rose
Caption	Charlie Rose, May 2010
Birthname	Charles Peete Rose, Jr.
Birth date	January 05, 1942
Birth place	Henderson, North Carolina, U.S.
Education	Duke University B.A. (1964) Duke School of Law J.D. (1968)
Occupation	Talk show hostJournalist
Years active	1972–present
Credits	Charlie Rose, 60 Minutes II, 60 Minutes, CBS News Nightwatch
Url	http://www.charlierose.com/

Charles Peete "Charlie" Rose, Jr. (born January 5, 1942) is an American television talk show host and journalist. Since 1991, he has hosted Charlie Rose, an interview show distributed nationally by PBS since 1993. He was concurrently a correspondent for 60 Minutes II from its inception in January 1999 until its cancellation in September 2005, and was later named a correspondent on 60 Minutes.

Early life

Rose was born in Henderson, North Carolina, the only child As a child, Rose lived above his parents' store in Henderson and helped out with the family business from age seven. A high school basketball star, Rose entered Duke University intending to pursue a degree with a pre-med track, but an internship in the office of Democratic North Carolina Senator B. Everett Jordan got him interested in politics. Rose graduated in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in history. At Duke, Rose was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity. He earned a Juris Doctor from the Duke University School of Law in 1968, and also attended New York University Stern School of Business. in a 2000 episode of The Simpsons. and in the 2008 movie Elegy.

Conflict-of-interest accusations

While hosting the 2002 Coca-Cola Company shareholders' meeting, Rose said "few companies are able to connect as completely with consumers in the way that Coca-Cola is. It is a privilege to be associated with [The Coca-Cola family] ... This is the business of Coca-Cola: being part of a family, being worldwide, doing well and doing good at the same time." Afterward, Coca-Cola agreed to become what Rose called "a leading underwriter" of The Charlie Rose Show, paying "six or possibly seven figures." Even the Charlie Rose mugs used on his PBS show feature a Coca-Cola logo on one side. Although CBS News policy bars correspondents from doing commercials and product endorsements, the Washington Post reported CBS was "comfortable" with Rose's actions. Rose insists he "would never do a story on 60 Minutes II about anybody who underwrites my PBS show." It was also Rose however, who previously told Amy Goodman while elaborating on the subject of independent media, "I promise you, CBS News and ABC News and NBC News are not influenced by the corporations that may own those companies, since I know one of them very well and worked for one of them."

Personal life

Rose's twelve-year marriage to Mary Rose (née King) ended in divorce in 1980. Mary is the sister-in-law of Morgan Stanley Chairman John J. Mack. From 1993 until 2005, his companion was socialite and city-planning advocate Amanda Burden, a stepdaughter of CBS founder William S. Paley.

On March 29, 2006, after experiencing shortness of breath in Syria, Rose was flown to Paris and underwent surgery for mitral valve repair in the Georges-Pompidou European Hospital. His surgery was performed under the supervision of Alain F. Carpentier, a pioneer of the procedure. Rose returned to the air on June 12, 2006, with Bill Moyers and Yvette Vega (the show's executive producer), to discuss his surgery and recuperation.

Rose owns a farm in Oxford, North Carolina, an apartment overlooking Central Park in New York City, and a beach house in Bellport, New York.

References

External links

Charlie Rose Official website of his eponymous show

Charlie Rose official channel on YouTube

Downloadable episodes of the Charlie Rose Show on Google Video

Charlie Rose on Audible.com

Why Business Loves Charlie Rose David A. Kaplan, Fortune, September 28, 2009

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