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About J. B. Edwards
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- Edwards (born October 3, 1951) is an American playwright known for works including: William’s Last Chance (2001), A Family Reunion (2002), Una Reunion Familiar (2003), The Sanctuary (2003), Three Women Dating Henry (2004), The Day Einstein Died (2005), Einstein’s Secret Letters (2005), The Best of Everything (2006), A Delicate Matter (2007), Requeim for a Marriage (2008) and Sister Stories (2009).
- His works are a study of typical American lives in the late 20th century, and were influenced by the great American playwrights Arthur Miller and Edward Albee.
- Edwards' non-fiction books include: The Coming Cancer Breakthroughs (2001), Men Head East, Woman Turn Right (2006) and Plays by J.B.
- Edwards (2012).
- His fiction books include: Faagraph of an Ordinary Man and China Dreams. Edwards was born in Bronx, New York, and after a Ph.D.
- from the University of Minnesota, did a stint in the U.S.
- Army.
- Coming back to New York for good, he began a career as a writer, poet and novelist.
- Ironically, his first artistic success was as a painter, with his first shows in New York in the 1980s.
- He continues to be a prolific painter of edgy abstract art, and his paintings are represented in several galleries and corporations in the U.S.
- Later in his career, Edwards began to write plays, and enjoys a continuing success in the Off-Broadway theater scene.
- He recently ventured into film work, writing and directing the movie version of his play Three Women Dating Henry. J.
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- Edwards is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the National Arts Club, and The Players Club of New York.
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