Wendy Wasserstein left many things behind when, after a long and mostly hidden battle with lymphoma, she died in 2006 at the age of 55. In her unvarnished biography of the playwright, Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein, Julie Salamon takes stock of them all, and in the process captures many aspects of a woman who led a complicated, if perhaps not entirely uncommon life given her time and place and talent.
Of course the most public part of Wasserstein's legacy was her plays. There was "Uncommon Women," the bittersweet 1977 drama that put her on the theatrical map as it presented us with a group of Mount Holyoke alumnae of her own generation who cannily …
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