Claire Chafee

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Claire Chafee is an American playwright.{{cite news |title='Why We Have a Body' playwright Claire Chafee |url=https://www.sfgate.com/performance/article/Why-We-Have-a-Body-playwright-Claire-Chafee-2309754.php |accessdate=15 December 2018 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=September 15, 2011}} Her 1993 play Why We Have a Body won an Oppenheimer Award.{{cite book |last1=Emmanuel S. Nelson |title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States |date=14 July 2009 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9780313348600 |page=193 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wmhFCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA193 |accessdate=16 December 2018|author1-link=Emmanuel S. Nelson }}