Wit: A Play 1st (first) edition

by Margaret Edson

Paperback

Published January 1, 2000

About the author

Margaret Edson was born in Washington, DC in 1961. She earned degrees in history and literature, and she has been a public school teacher since 1992. Her play Wit won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1999. The play has received hundreds of productions in dozens of languages, and the HBO version won the Emmy Award for best film in 2001. She lives with her family in Atlanta and teaches sixth-grade social studies at Inman Middle School.

Reviews

[Laura O · Rating 5 out of 5]

I will never forget this book. I read this as part of the curriculum for my Literature and Medicine class in college. It was taught by a practicing RN with a PhD in literature and I enjoyed the entire class as she mainly connected literature to medicine. This book is for those who feel like their socioeconomic status places them above anyone else. It is a true masterpiece and made it to Broadway (and HBO) for a reason. It changed my perspective in many ways, and helped me understand that for most people, their behavior comes from a lack of self awareness, because they simply have not experienced life in ways that help them develop into better human beings.