Wendy and the lost boys : the uncommon life of Wendy Wasserstein

This book was given me by a friend, who called it "a page-turner." The friend and I both worked on the Playwrights Horizons production of "Isn't It Romantic," and also with many of the theatre people who populate the book, so for us, it definitely was. Contrasting the private Wasserstein with the

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public Wasserstein, the book reveals an ambitious, talented, driven, social woman who defied uppercrust conventions in her appearance, but was buffeted about privately by traditional societal expectations of family life and stalked by tragedy. It does not sufficiently convey how funny she could be. The quote most interesting to me was from John Lyons, the one-time literary manager, who said that if Playwrights had received blind submissions of a Noel Coward play and a Sam Shepard play, the Noel Coward would be the one that would have been produced. Aha! The rich and privileged do think different from you and me.

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