Playwright Margaret Edson on Reading Between the Lines and Breathing Life Into Wit
About the author: Call it beginner’s luck or call it talent: Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Margaret Edson has both. Between earning a degree in Renaissance history from Smith College and a master’s in English literature from Georgetown University, Edson worked in the cancer and AIDS unit in a research hospital. Witnessing the effects of devastating illness firsthand served as inspiration for her firs…