Research topic: David Mamet

David Mamet , 1947-, American playwright and film director, b. Chicago. He taught drama and produced some of his early plays at Goddard College. His work, often dealing with the success and failure of the American dream, is noted for its sharp, spare, compressed, often profane, and muscularly insightful dialogue. He came to public attention with such plays as Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1974) and American Buffalo (1975), later achieving success with the corrosively brilliant Glengarry Glen Ross (1983; Pulitzer Prize) and Oleanna (1992). He also wrote screenplays for The Postman... Read more