Edward Albee

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1. Edward Albee

   Author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The American Dream and The Zoo Story, A Delicate Balance

2. Tennessee Williams

   Author of A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Plays 1937-1955

3. Eugene O'Neill

   Author of Long Day's Journey into Night, The Iceman Cometh, Three Plays: Desire Under The Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra

4. David Mamet

   Author of Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, The Cryptogram

5. Tom Stoppard

   Author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia, The Invention of Love

6. Arthur Miller

   Author of The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, A View From the Bridge

7. George Bernard Shaw

   Author of Pygmalion, Man and Superman, Androcles and the Lion

8. Harold Pinter

   Author of The Homecoming, Complete Works, Volume I, The Caretaker and The Dumb Waiter

9. Virginia Woolf

   Author of Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own

10. Samuel Beckett

    Author of Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape, More Pricks Than Kicks

11. Bertolt Brecht

    Author of Mother Courage and Her Children, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

12. George Plimpton

    Author of Writers at Work 02, Writers at Work 05, Writers at Work 08

13. Eugene Ionesco

    Author of Four Plays: The Bald Soprano; The Lesson; Jack, or the Submission; The Chairs, Rhinoceros and Other Plays: The Leader, the Future is in Eggs, The Killer, and Other Plays

14. Peter Shaffer

    Author of Equus, Amadeus, The White Liars, and Black Comedy: Two One-Act Plays

15. Lanford Wilson

    Author of Burn This, Fifth of July, Balm in Gilead and Other Plays

16. Sam Shepard

    Author of Seven Plays, Fool for Love and Other Plays, True West

17. Tony Kushner

    Author of Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches, Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika, Homebody/Kabul: Revised Version

18. Thornton Niven Wilder

    Author of Our Town, Three Plays, Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings on Theater (Library of America)

19. Anton Chekhov

    Author of Five Plays, The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull

20. Jean Genet

    Author of The Balcony, Miracle of the Rose, The Blacks : a clown show