J. B. Edwards

Who is J. B. Edwards?

J.B. Edwards is an American playwright known for works including: “William’s Last Chance”, “A Family Reunion”, “Una Reunion Familiar”, “The Sanctuary”, “Three Women Dating Henry”, “The Day Einstein Died”, “Einstein’s Secret Letters”, “The Best of Everything”, “A Delicate Matter”, “Requeim for a Marriage” and “Sister Stories”. His works are a study of typical American lives in the late twentieth century, and were influenced by the great American playwrights Arthur Miller and Edward Albee. Edwards' non-fiction books include: The Coming Cancer Breakthroughs, Men Head East, Woman Turn Right and Plays by J.B. Edwards. His fiction books include: Faagraph of an Ordinary Man and China Dreams.

Edwards was born in Bronx, New York, and after a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, did a stint in the U.S. Army. Coming back to New York for good, Edwards began a career as a writer, poet and novelist. Ironically, his first artistic success was as a painter, with his first shows in New York in the eighties. He continues to be a prolific painter of edgy abstract art, and his paintings are represented in several galleries and corporations in the U.S. Later in his career, Edwards began to write plays, and enjoys a continuing success in the Off-Broadway theater scene. He recently ventured into film work, writing and directing the movie version of his play Three Women Dating Henry.