| Prologue |
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PART ONE Growing Up, 1950--71 |
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One The Family Wasserstein |
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7 | (20) |
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Two A Brooklyn Childhood, 1950--63 |
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27 | (22) |
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Three A Girl s Education, 1963--67 |
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49 | (18) |
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Four Gracious Living, 1967--68 |
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67 | (16) |
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Five Great Expectations, 1968--71 |
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83 | (18) |
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PART TWO Becoming a Writer, 1971--80 |
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Six The Funniest Girl in New York, 1971--73 |
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101 | (18) |
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Seven Drama Queens and Kings, 1973--76 |
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119 | (20) |
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Eight A Playwright's Horizons, 1976--77 |
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139 | (16) |
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Nine Tryout Town, USA, Summer 1977 |
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155 | (12) |
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Ten The Emergence of Wendy Wasserstein, 1977--78 |
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167 | (20) |
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Eleven Orphans' Christmas, 1978--79 |
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187 | (18) |
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PART THREE Isn't It Romantic, 1980--89 |
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Twelve Design for Living, 1980--83 |
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205 | (22) |
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227 | (12) |
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Fourteen Rooms of Her Own, 1986--87 |
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239 | (20) |
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Fifteen The Heidi Chronicles, 1988--89 |
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259 | (16) |
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PART FOUR Days of Awe, 1990--99 |
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Sixteen Wendy Wasserstein, Inc., 1990--92 |
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275 | (12) |
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Seventeen Thicker Than Water, 1990--93 |
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287 | (20) |
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Eighteen The Objects of Her Affection, 1993--98 |
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307 | (20) |
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Nineteen Festival of Regrets, 1998--99 |
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327 | (16) |
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Twenty The Birth of Lucy Jane, 1999 |
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343 | (14) |
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PART FIVE Wendy's Last Act, 2000--2006 |
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Twenty-one The New Millennium, 2000--01 |
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357 | (14) |
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Twenty-two Welcome to My Rash, 2002--04 |
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371 | (20) |
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Twenty-three The Final Production, 2005 |
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391 | (22) |
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Twenty-four Legacy, 2005--06 |
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413 | (16) |
| Acknowledgments |
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| Illustration Permissions |
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433 | (2) |
| Notes |
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435 | (10) |
| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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