Paula+Vogel

=**Paula Vogel**= A productive playwright since the late 1970s, Vogel first came to national prominence with her AIDS-related seriocomedy //The Baltimore Waltz//, which won the Obie award for Best Play in 1992. She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning play //How I Learned To Drive// (1997), which examines the impact and echoes of child sexual abuse and incest. Other notable plays include //Desdemona, A Play About A Handkerchief// (1979); //The Oldest Profession// (1981); //And Baby Makes Seven// (1984); "Hot 'N Throbbing" (1994); and //The Mineola Twins// (1996). Although no particular theme or topic dominates her work, she often examines traditionally controversial issues such as sexual abuse, and prostitution. Asserting that she "writes the play backwards," moving from emotional circumstances and character to craft narrative structure, Vogel says, "My writing isn't actually guided by issues. ... I only write about things that directly impact my life." Vogel's family, especially her late brother Carl Vogel, serves as an influence to her writings. Carl's likeness appears in such plays as //The Long Christmas Ride Home// (2003), //The Baltimore Waltz//, and //And Baby Makes Seven//. Her work embraces theatrical devices from across several traditions, incorporating, in various works, direct address, bunraku puppetry, omniscient narration, and fantasy sequences. Vogel had two brothers: Mark, and Carl, who died of AIDS in 1988. Vogel married Brown University professor and author Anne Fausto-Sterling, in Truro, Massachusetts on September 26, 2004. Subsequent to her Obie Award for Best Play (1992) and Pulitzer Prize in Drama (1998), Vogel received the Award for Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. She won the 1998 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. (Source: [])
 * Paula Vogel** (born 16 November 1951) is an American playwright and university professor. She received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, //How I Learned to Drive//.



__**Plays:**__ Swan Song of Sir Henry (1974) Meg (1977) Apple-Brown Betty (1979) Desdemona, A Play about a Handkerchief (1979) Bertha in Blue (1981) The Oldest Profession (1981) And Baby Makes Seven (1984) The Baltimore Waltz (1992) Hot 'N Throbbing (1994) The Mineola Twins (1996) How I Learned To Drive (1997) The Long Christmas Ride Home (2004)

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