David Mamet was born in Chicago in 1947. He studied at Goddard College in Vermont and at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York. He has taught Goddard College, the Yale Drama School, and New York University, and lectures at the Atlantic Theater Company, of which he is a founding member. He is he author of the acclaimed plays The Cryptogram, Oleanna, Speed-the-Plow, Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, and Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He has also written screenplays for films such as Homicide, House of Games, Wag the Dog, and the Oscar-nominated The Verdict. His plays have won the Pulitzer Prize and the Obie Award.
THE SPANISH PRISONER
"Elegant, entertaining. . . . Mamet's craftiest and most satisfying
cinematic puzzle." --The New York Times
THE WINSLOW BOY
"One of the most subtly compelling love stories of the year." --The
New York Observer
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