David Mamet
30 November 1947
140 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
David Alan Mamet is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. His works are known for their clever, terse, sometimes vulgar dialogue and arcane stylized phrasing, as well as for their exploration of masculinity. Mamet received Tony Award nominations for Glengarry Glen Ros (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988), as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross. As a screenwriter, he received Oscar nominations for The Verdict (1982) and Wag the Dog (1997). (Source.)
Also published as: David Mamet (screenplay)
Most-read books
On directing film
3.7 · 1991 · 205 want to read
The postman always rings twice
3.7 · 1934 · 84 want to read
True and False
4.3 · 1997 · 60 want to read
Oleanna
3.7 · 1992 · 21 want to read
3 uses of the knife
4 · 1998 · 19 want to read
Glengarry Glen Ross
3.5 · 1983 · 18 want to read
American Buffalo
2 · 1976 · 11 want to read
Whisky galore
3.5 · 1947 · 10 want to read
Speed-the-plow
3 · 1987 · 8 want to read
The secret knowledge
2011 · 8 want to read
Sexual perversity in Chicago
4 · 1977 · 6 want to read
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2006 · 5 want to read
A life in the theatre
4 · 1977 · 6 want to read
Writing in restaurants
1986 · 4 want to read
Race
2 · 2010 · 4 want to read
Boston marriage
4 · 2000 · 4 want to read
Recessional
3 · 2022 · 2 want to read
Some freaks
1989 · 4 want to read
Edmond
4 · 1983 · 2 want to read
Make-believe town
1996 · 3 want to read
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1998 · 3 want to read
House of Games
1987 · 3 want to read
Goldberg Street
1985 · 3 want to read
Theatre
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