Paula Vogel is an American playwright and university professor. She received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play How I Learned to Drive and the Award for Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. Vogel was Chair of the playwriting department at the Yale School of Drama.
"The play is steeped in a gentle lyricism we associate with
nostalgic portraits of American youth. The tone, the setting, the
characters seem at first so familiar, so, well, normal, that it's
only by degrees that we sense the poison within the pastels. By
then we feel both locked into, and complicit with, this portrait of
a warping relationship. That's the art of Drive." * New York Times
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"How I Learned to Drive is a tremendous achievement, genuine and
genuinely disturbing...This is, quite simply, the sweetest and most
forgiving play ever written about child abuse...Vogel's delicate
tactic makes sense not only as a way to redouble the dramatic
effect, but as a representation of reality, a perfect case of the
form fitting the subject." * Village Voice *
"How I Learned to Drive is one of the best plays of the decade." *
USA Today *
"With subtle humor and teasing erotic encounters, Vogel addresses
the dangerous intersections of teenage temptation. She also paints
a richly poetic and picturesque landscape...The play is a potent
and convincing comment on a taboo subject, and its impact sneaks up
on its audience." * Variety *
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