Among her many honors are an IP3 award from Public Knowledge for her work in information policy. All the while keeping the severity of her condition a secret to even her closest friends, the sort of matter that true Wassersteins never discussed. Bruce Wasserstein's big move Ann Godoff at Penguin Press has been my editor this is the fifth book we've done together and she had been approached by Andr Bishop, [the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater], who was a good friend of Wendy's and her literary executor. On January 30, 2006, Wendy Wasserstein a playwright and essayist whose work reflected with humor and empathy the dilemmas and challenges facing American baby-boom women who wanted to have it all died, at age 55. The 93-year-old Swift turned up at a show I produced in 1990, offhandedly introducing me to her 84-year-old friend Frankie. Alford currently serves on the board of directors of the Bank of the James and the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation. For more than 25 years, lawyer John Alford Jr. has represented businesses and individuals in Lynchburg and throughout Central Virginia on matters involving business, commercial transactions, real estate, estate planning and estate administration. Even with each other. Here is Wendy in a jacuzzi at an exclusive spa at 24, sharing the waters naked with Clark Gable's widow (who has nothing to do with anything), learning that her idolized big sister was fathered by an uncle. As I interviewed people for this book, whether they knew Wendy or didn't know Wendy, three plays, The Heidi Chronicles, Uncommon Women and Others [1977], and to a lesser extent The Sisters Rosensweig [1992, a semi-Chekhovian serious comedy modeled on her own family about, well, three sisters], spoke to the things that people within this relatively small but powerful universe were thinking about. Who was her father? Her gift was in dialogue and character. Born in 1950, Wasserstein graduated from Mount Holyoke in the early 70s, a period memorialized in her play Uncommon Women and Others. She returned to her parents home, fretting about what to do next.