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David Mamet

DAVID MAMET is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, as well as a director, novelist, poet, and essayist. He has written the screenplays for more than twenty films, including Heist, Spartan, House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow Boy, Wag the Dog, and the Oscar-nominated The Verdict. His more than twenty plays include Oleanna, The Cryptogram, Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and the Pulitzer Prizewinning Glengarry Glen Ross. Born in Chicago in 1947, Mamet has taught at the Yale School of Drama, New York University, and Goddard College, and is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company.
The Secret Knowledge
The Wicked Son
November
Bambi vs. Godzilla
Romance
The Voysey Inheritance
Faustus
Five Cities of Refuge
Boston Marriage
Three Uses of the Knife
The Spanish Prisoner and The Winslow Boy
True and False
The Old Neighborhood
The Cryptogram
The Cabin
Oleanna
On Directing Film
Writing in Restaurants

Books

The Secret Knowledge
The Wicked Son
November
Bambi vs. Godzilla
Romance
The Voysey Inheritance
Faustus
Five Cities of Refuge
Boston Marriage
Three Uses of the Knife
The Spanish Prisoner and The Winslow Boy
True and False
The Old Neighborhood
The Cryptogram
The Cabin
Oleanna
On Directing Film
Writing in Restaurants