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Wendy Wasserstein
The news just wrung out word of playwright Wendy Wasserstein's death, which is incredibly sad. She was so funny, so interesting and so young. She also was a single mother to a daughter who is still very little, about 7 or 8 I imagine.
I've read and seen a number of her plays, but what also stuck in my mind is a piece she wrote for a women's magazine, it was probably Elle... at any rate, something like that, about her daughter's extreme premature birth. What I recall of the article was not so much the details but the grace and interest she brought to such a painful, infuriating and terrifying subject. At the time, I had no designs on a family and generally barely registered this sort of material, but for whatever reason, Wasserstein's piece stuck with me and I thought about her experience all throughout my pregnancy and at sharp moments while I was in the hospital with my child.
She was a really interesting woman who wrote quite vividly about the cascade of problems and issues women face as they burst into a world of possibilities and feel around them so many ambitions and simultaneous limitations.
Here's the New York Times obituary.
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