num_pages: 112
description: I Am My Own Wife is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.From the Obie Award-winning author of Quills comes this acclaimed one-man show, which explores the astonishing true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. A transvestite and celebrated antiques dealer who successfully navigated the two most oppressive regimes of the past century-the Nazis and the Communists--while openly gay and defiantly in drag, von Mahlsdorf was both hailed as a cultural hero and accused of colluding with the Stasi.In an attempt to discern the truth about Charlotte, Doug Wright has written "at once a vivid portrait of Germany in the second half of the twentieth century, a morally complex tale about what it can take to be a survivor, and an intriguing meditation on everything from the obsession with collecting to the passage of time" (Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times ).
language: English
title: I Am My Own Wife
titlecomplete: I Am My Own Wife
genres: Historical, Queer, School, Drama, Plays, LGBT, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary, Theatre
ratings_count: 2527
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Drama, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Drama
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux