Posted AT 11:31 AM EDT on 06/05/06
A last laugh on the rich
Elements of Style
By Wendy Wasserstein
Knopf, 307 pages, $31.95
It isn't easy reviewing a recently deceased author. Anything faintly critical feels like it's in bad taste. Wendy Wasserstein died at the age of 55 this past January. A brilliant playwright, she won both a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize for The Heidi Chronicles.
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