Margaret Edson
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About
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who wrote the 1995 play Wit and won the 2001 Emmy Award for Outstanding Made for Television Film.
Before Fame
She graduated from a Quaker-run school in Washington called Sidwell Friends School.
Trivia
She donated her Pulitzer Prize money to a foundation dedicated to helping doctors with their bedside manner.
Family Life
Her father was a newspaper columnist and her mother was a social worker.
Associated With
She won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as did The Pittsburgh Cycle playwright August Wilson.
