Edward Albee, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Playwright, Dies at 88 https://t.co/z09kpCaRC2

— Variety (@Variety) September 17, 2016

Edward Albee, probably America's most esteemed living playwright, died Friday at 88 at his home on Long Island.

Albee's greatest works included the Pulitzer Prize winners A Delicate Balance (1966), Seascape (1975) and Three Tall Women (1991), and of course his pop cultural atom bomb Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the 1962 Broadway masterpiece turned into an equally impressive film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

Woolf? was criticized at the time for its crude language, and at least one critic sniffed that its central couple—male and female—were stand-ins for a bitchy gay couple. 

RIP Edward Albee, towering playwright and creator of this monumental literary line of dialogue: https://t.co/AE5A9DrMMW

— Erik (Poop) Schut (@MrErikSchut) September 17, 2016

Albee apparently wanted this statement made public at the time of his passing:

To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.

His partner died in 2005.