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The play won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984David Mamet is one of the most distinguished American playwrightHis work is studied at colleges on both literature and drama courses"David Mamet, screenwriter of The Verdict and The Postman AlwaysRings Twice, is alongside Sam Shepard and Michael Weller, one of themost distinctive voices on the contemporary American stage" MichaelCoveney, Financial Times

About the Author

David Mamet was born in Chicago in 1947. In 1978 he became Associate Artistic Director of the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, where American Buffalohad been first staged in 1975, subsequently winning an Obie Award andopening on Broadway in 1977 and at the National Theatre in 1978. Hisgreatest hits, Glengarry Glen Ross and Oleanna followed in 1983 and 1993 respectively.