Eve Ensler

Eve Ensler (born May 25, 1953) is an American playwright and feminist activist. She is best known for the play The Vagina Monologues.

Ensler was born in New York City to a Christian mother and Jewish father. She graduated from Middlebury College in 1975. She married Richard McDermott in 1978 and divorced in 1988. She is the adoptive mother of actor Dylan McDermott. She adopted him when he was 18 and she was 26.

In 2010, she said that she was being treated for uterine cancer.

References

 Other websites 
 Eve Ensler biography  via V-Day
 Eve Ensler via Internet Movie Database

 Writer's Voice 2007 audio interview

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Category:American feminists
Category:American playwrights
Category:Writers from New York City