Paula Vogel is an award-winning playwright and drama professor who crafts her plays around difficult subjects like AIDS, incest, and prostitution. In 1998 she received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for How I Learned to Drive. Her other plays include The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Baltimore Waltz, Hot'N'Throbbing, Desdemona, and The Oldest Profession — about aging former prostitutes in New York City. She teaches at Brown University, where she directs the MFA playwriting program.