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Teacher, author, and critic, Edwin

Wilson has worked in many

aspects of theater. Educated at Vanderbilt University, the

University of Edinburgh, and Yale University, he received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale Drama School, as well as the first Doctor of Fine Arts degree awarded by Yale. He has taught at Yale, Hofstra, Vanderbilt, Hunter College, and the CUNY Graduate Center. At Hunter he served as chair of the Department of Theatre and Film and head of the graduate theater program. At CUNY he directs the Martin E. Segal The- atre Center.

Edwin Wilson was the theater critic of The Wall Street Journal for 22 years. In addition to The Theater Experience, he is coauthor with Alvin Goldfarb of Living Theater.. A History, Theater: The Lively Art, and the Anthology of Living Theater,

also published by McGraw-Hill, and he was responsible for the volume Shaw on Shakespeare. He was the president of the New York Drama Critics Circle and served several times on the Tony Nominating Committee and the Pulitzer Prize Drama Jury. He is on the boards of the John Golden Fund, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Theatre Development Fund, of which he was also president.