David Mamet

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1. Dave Eggers

   Author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005

2. David Mamet

   Author of Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, Goldberg Street: Short Plays and Monologues

3. Harold Pinter

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

4. Edward Albee

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

5. Tom Stoppard

   Author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia, Indian Ink

6. Michael Chabon

   Author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, McSweeney's Issue 10: Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, The Best American Short Stories 2005

7. 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

8. Tennessee Williams

   Author of A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

9. David Foster Wallace

   Author of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, The Broom of the System, Girl With Curious Hair

10. Sam Shepard

    Author of Seven Plays, Fool for Love and Other Plays, Motel Chronicles

11. Samuel Beckett

    Author of Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape, Stories and Texts for Nothing

12. Alan Ayckbourn

    Author of The Norman conquests : a trilogy of plays, Communicating Doors, Absurd Person Singular

13. Editors of McSweeney's

    Author of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern No. 13, McSweeney's The Icelandic Issue (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern No. 15), McSweeney's Issue 16: Also Comes With A Comb

14. Lanford Wilson

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

15. Bertolt Brecht

    Author of Mother Courage and Her Children, Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic, The Jewish Wife, and Other Short Plays

16. Jonathan Lethem

    Author of The Fortress of Solitude, Gun, with Occasional Music, The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye

17. Lawrence A. Hoffman

    Author of My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 1: TraditionalPrayers, Modern Commentaries--The Sh'ma and Its Blessings, My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 2: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries--The Amidah, My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 7: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries---Shabbat at Home

18. David Rabe

    Author of Hurlyburly, Streamers, The Vietnam Plays: The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel ; Sticks and Bones

19. Arthur Miller

    Author of Death of a Salesman, A View From the Bridge, All My Sons

20. Tony Kushner

    Author of Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Homebody/Kabul: Revised Version