David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, as well as a director, novelist, poet, and essayist. He has written the screenplays for more than twenty films, including * Heist, Spartan, House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow Boy, Wag the D...

David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, as well as a director, novelist, poet, and essayist. He has written the screenplays for more than twenty films, including * Heist, Spartan, House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow Boy, Wag the Dog,and the Oscar-nominated The Verdict *. His more than twenty plays include * Oleanna, The Cryptogram, Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago,and the Pulitzer Prizewinning Glengarry Glen Ross *. Born in Chicago in 1947, Mamet has taught at the Yale School of Drama, New York University, and Goddard College, and is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company.