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Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 13-FEB-06

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Wendy Wasserstein, who died last week at only fifty-five, was one of the few Pulitzer Prize winners to be recognizable by her first name. If you said "Wendy," theatregoers, and everyone else in the theatre community, knew instantly whom you meant. Wendy was beloved to an almost alarming degree. Her fans were passionate not just about her work but about her; strangers would constantly leap...

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