Playwright Edward Albee dies at 88

Pulitzer-winning US playwright Edward Albee, author of such masterpieces as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" died Friday at age 88, his personal assistant said in a statement. Albee died at his home in Montauk, New York after a short illness. Considered one of the most important American playwrights of his time, Albee wrote a variety of intense, controversial plays diving into anxieties, disillusionments and death.