David Alan Mamet (/ˈmæmɪt/; born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, filmmaker, and author.
He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988). He first gained critical acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway 1970s plays: The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo. His plays Race and The Penitent, respectively, opened on Broadway in 2009 and previewed off-Broadway in 2017.
Books in order of publication:
Writing in Restaurants – 1986
The Hero Pony – 1990
The Village (1994)
The Old Religion (1997)
True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor (1997)
Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources (2000)
The Trials of Roderick Spode (The Human Ant) – 2010
The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture in 2011
Chicago (2018)
The Diary of a Porn Star by Priscilla Wriston-Ranger: As Told to David Mamet With an Afterword by Mr. Mamet – 2019
Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch – 2022
Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood – 2023
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