Harold Pinter (1930–2008)

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1. Harold Pinter

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

2. Tom Stoppard

   Author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Invention of Love, Indian Ink

3. Samuel Beckett

   Author of Waiting for Godot, More Pricks Than Kicks, The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989

4. David Mamet

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

5. Edward Albee

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

6. Alan Ayckbourn

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

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. George Bernard Shaw

   Author of Man and Superman, Heartbreak House, Androcles and the Lion

9. Bertolt Brecht

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

10. George Plimpton

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

11. Eugene Ionesco

    Author of Rhinocéros, Rhinoceros and Other Plays: The Leader, the Future is in Eggs, Exit the King / The Killer / Macbett

12. Lanford Wilson

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

13. Caryl Churchill

    Author of Cloud 9, Top Girls, Serious Money (Acting Edition)

14. Tennessee Williams

    Author of A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton

15. Marcel Proust

    Author of Time Regained, The Captive & The Fugitive, Pleasures and Regrets

16. Jean Genet

    Author of The Balcony, The Blacks : a clown show, The Screens

17. Peter Shaffer

    Author of Equus, Amadeus, Three Plays: Equus, Shrivings & Five Finger Exercise

18. Simon Gray

    Author of Butley, Quartermaine's Terms, Hidden Laughter

19. John Osborne

    Author of Look Back in Anger, Luther, The Entertainer

20. David Hare

    Author of Plenty, Racing Demon: A Play, The Asian Plays: Fanshen, Saigon, a Map of the World