About David Mamet
David Mamet was born in Chicago in 1947. He studied at Goddard College, Vermont, and at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre in New York. His plays, screenplays and books on drama practice have met with glowing reviews and been acclaimed as classics of their kind.
Novels
The Village (1994)
Passover (1995)
The Old Religion (1997)
Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources (2000)
Passover (1995)
The Old Religion (1997)
Wilson: A Consideration of the Sources (2000)
Collections
Sexual Perversity in Chicago / The Duck Variations: Two Plays (1977)
American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago , Duck Variations: Three Plays (1978)
The Water Engine: An American Fable and Mr. Happiness : Two Plays (1978)
Reunion and Dark Pony: Two Plays (1979)
Short Plays and Monologues (1981)
Reunion ; Dark pony ; The sanctity of marriage: Three plays (1982)
The Shawl; And- Prairie Du Chien: Two Plays (1985)
Three Children's Plays (1986)
Three Jewish plays (1987)
The Woods; Lakeboat; Edmond: Three Plays (1987)
The Shawl / Prairie Du Chien (1989)
Five Television Plays (1990)
The Hero Pony: Poems (poems) (1990)
Plays: Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Squirrels, American Buffalo, The Water Engine, Mr.Happiness (1994)
No One Will Be Immune: And Other Plays And Pieces (1994)
PLAYS (1995) MAMET (1995)
Plays (1996)
PLAYS (1996) MAMET (1996)
The Chinaman (poems) (1999)
Short Plays and Sketches (1999)
The Spanish Prisoner and Winslow Boy (1999)
Goldberg Street: Short Plays (2000)
Poems for Life: : A Special Collection of Poetry (poems) (2011) (with E L Doctorow, Allen Ginsberg)
American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago , Duck Variations: Three Plays (1978)
The Water Engine: An American Fable and Mr. Happiness : Two Plays (1978)
Reunion and Dark Pony: Two Plays (1979)
Short Plays and Monologues (1981)
Reunion ; Dark pony ; The sanctity of marriage: Three plays (1982)
The Shawl; And- Prairie Du Chien: Two Plays (1985)
Three Children's Plays (1986)
Three Jewish plays (1987)
The Woods; Lakeboat; Edmond: Three Plays (1987)
The Shawl / Prairie Du Chien (1989)
Five Television Plays (1990)
The Hero Pony: Poems (poems) (1990)
Plays: Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Squirrels, American Buffalo, The Water Engine, Mr.Happiness (1994)
No One Will Be Immune: And Other Plays And Pieces (1994)
PLAYS (1995) MAMET (1995)
Plays (1996)
PLAYS (1996) MAMET (1996)
The Chinaman (poems) (1999)
Short Plays and Sketches (1999)
The Spanish Prisoner and Winslow Boy (1999)
Goldberg Street: Short Plays (2000)
Poems for Life: : A Special Collection of Poetry (poems) (2011) (with E L Doctorow, Allen Ginsberg)
Plays
A Life in the Theatre (1977)
American Buffalo (1977)
The Woods (1979)
Lakeboat (1981)
Squirrels (1982)
Edmond (1983)
The Frog Prince (1983)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)
The Shawl (1985)
House of Games (1987)
Speed-the-Plow (1988)
Things Change (1988) (with Shel Silverstein)
We're No Angels (1990)
Oh Hell (1990)
Oleanna (1993)
The Cryptogram (1995)
The Old Neighborhood (1998)
The Spanish Prisoner (1999)
Henrietta (1999)
Winslow Boy (1999)
Homicide (2000)
Boston Marriage (2001)
Faustus (2004)
November (2008)
Keep Your Pantheon (2009)
Death Defying Acts (2010) (with Woody Allen)
School (2010)
Race (2010)
Keep Your Pantheon / School (2011)
The Anarchist (2012)
American Buffalo (1977)
The Woods (1979)
Lakeboat (1981)
Squirrels (1982)
Edmond (1983)
The Frog Prince (1983)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)
The Shawl (1985)
House of Games (1987)
Speed-the-Plow (1988)
Things Change (1988) (with Shel Silverstein)
We're No Angels (1990)
Oh Hell (1990)
Oleanna (1993)
The Cryptogram (1995)
The Old Neighborhood (1998)
The Spanish Prisoner (1999)
Henrietta (1999)
Winslow Boy (1999)
Homicide (2000)
Boston Marriage (2001)
Faustus (2004)
November (2008)
Keep Your Pantheon (2009)
Death Defying Acts (2010) (with Woody Allen)
School (2010)
Race (2010)
Keep Your Pantheon / School (2011)
The Anarchist (2012)
Picture Books
Warm and Cold (1989)
The Duck and the Goat (1996)
Bar Mitzvah (1999)
The Trials of Roderick Spode: The Human Ant (2010)
The Duck and the Goat (1996)
Bar Mitzvah (1999)
The Trials of Roderick Spode: The Human Ant (2010)
Non fiction
Chicago Performs: A Guide to Theatre And Dance (1977)
Writing in Restaurants (1986)
Some Freaks (1989)
On Directing Film (1991)
The Cabin: Reminiscence and Diversions (1992)
A Whore's Profession: Notes and Essays (1994)
Make Believe Town: Essays and Remembrances (1996)
True and False: Heresy And Common Sense for the Actor (1997)
Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature And Purpose of Drama (1998)
On Acting (1999)
Jafsie and John Henry: Essays (1999)
Donald Sultan: In the Still Life Tradition (2000)
Directions: South of the Northeast Kingdom (2002)
Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business (2008)
The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews (2009)
Theatre (2010)
The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture (2011)
Writing in Restaurants (1986)
Some Freaks (1989)
On Directing Film (1991)
The Cabin: Reminiscence and Diversions (1992)
A Whore's Profession: Notes and Essays (1994)
Make Believe Town: Essays and Remembrances (1996)
True and False: Heresy And Common Sense for the Actor (1997)
Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature And Purpose of Drama (1998)
On Acting (1999)
Jafsie and John Henry: Essays (1999)
Donald Sultan: In the Still Life Tradition (2000)
Directions: South of the Northeast Kingdom (2002)
Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business (2008)
The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews (2009)
Theatre (2010)
The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture (2011)
Books about David Mamet
The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet: Cambridge Companions to Literature (2004) by Christopher Bigsby
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