In 1989 playwright Wendy Wasserstein won the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for The Heidi Chronicles, a play which traces the coming of age of an art historian and a generation that thought it had the corner market on youth. Her other plays include The Sisters Rosensweig and An American Daughter. Wasserstein’s new book, Sloth, celebrates her favorite deadly sin.
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