Brooklyn-born Wendy Wasserstein died of cancer on Monday. This from NY1:

Award winning New York playwright Wendy Wasserstein died Monday morning.

The 55-year-old had been battling lymphoma for several years. She died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Wasserstein achieved success both off an on Broadway, making a name for herself by writing about the joys and challenges of being a woman, being in love, having a career and motherhood.

One of her best known works is the Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning play, "The Heidi Chronicles," which was later made into a film.

She was born in Brooklyn and raised in Manhattan. She attended Mount Holyoke College and the Yale School of Drama.

While best-known for her plays, she also penned screenplays, children’s books and essay collections.