David Mamet was born in Chicago in 1947. He studied at Goddard College, Vermont, and at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre in New York. His plays, screenplays and books on drama practice have met with glowing reviews and been acclaimed as classics of their kind.
Genres: Historical, Literary Fiction
Novels
Collections
Sexual Perversity in Chicago / The Duck Variations: Two Plays (1978)
American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago , Duck Variations (1978)
The Water Engine: An American Fable and Mr. Happiness : Two Plays (1978)
Reunion and Dark Pony: Two Plays (1979)
Short Plays and Monologues (1981)
Reunion ; Dark pony ; The sanctity of marriage: Three plays (1982)
The Shawl; And- Prairie Du Chien: Two Plays (1985)
Three Children's Plays (1986)
The Woods; Lakeboat; Edmond: Three Plays (1987)
Three Jewish plays (1987)
The Shawl / Prairie Du Chien (1989)
Five Television Plays (1990)
The Hero Pony (poems) (1990)
Plays: Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Squirrels, American Buffalo, The Water Engine, Mr.Happiness (1994)
No One Will Be Immune (1994)
Plays (1996)
The Chinaman (poems) (1999)
Short Plays and Sketches (1999)
The Spanish Prisoner and Winslow Boy (1999)
Goldberg Street (2000)
Poems for Life (poems) (2011) (with E L Doctorow and Allen Ginsberg)
American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago , Duck Variations (1978)
The Water Engine: An American Fable and Mr. Happiness : Two Plays (1978)
Reunion and Dark Pony: Two Plays (1979)
Short Plays and Monologues (1981)
Reunion ; Dark pony ; The sanctity of marriage: Three plays (1982)
The Shawl; And- Prairie Du Chien: Two Plays (1985)
Three Children's Plays (1986)
The Woods; Lakeboat; Edmond: Three Plays (1987)
Three Jewish plays (1987)
The Shawl / Prairie Du Chien (1989)
Five Television Plays (1990)
The Hero Pony (poems) (1990)
Plays: Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Squirrels, American Buffalo, The Water Engine, Mr.Happiness (1994)
No One Will Be Immune (1994)
Plays (1996)
The Chinaman (poems) (1999)
Short Plays and Sketches (1999)
The Spanish Prisoner and Winslow Boy (1999)
Goldberg Street (2000)
Poems for Life (poems) (2011) (with E L Doctorow and Allen Ginsberg)
Plays show
Picture Books show
Non fiction show
Omnibus editions show
Books containing stories by David Mamet
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 (2004)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Dave Eggers
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