David Alan Mamet is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. His works are known for their clever, terse, sometimes vulgar dialogue and arcane stylized phrasing, as well as for his exploration of masculinity. As a playwright, he received Tony nominations for Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988). As a screenwriter, he received Oscar nominations for The Verdict (1982) and Wag the Dog (1997). Mamet's recent books include The Old Religion (1997), a novel about the lynching of Leo Frank; Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (2004), a Torah commentary, with Rabbi Lawrence Kushner; The Wicked Son (2006), a study of Jewish self-hatred and antisemitism; and Bambi vs. Godzilla, an acerbic commentary on the movie business.
Books
Theatre
2010
The Revenge of the Space Pandas, or Binky Rudich and the Two-Speed Clock
1978
Race
2010
The Cryptogram
1995
Chicago
A Novel
2018
Boston Marriage - Acting Edition
2002
Short Plays and Monologues
1981
David Mamet Shorts
Bobby Gould in Hell
2011
Three Uses of the Knife
On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
1991
Passover
1995
Wilson
A Consideration of the Sources
2000
The Penitent
2017
The Village
1994
A Life in the Theatre
1977
A Whore's Profession
Notes and Essays
1994
Glengarry Glen Ross
1983
The Cabin
1992
Sexual Perversity in Chicago
2023
The Voysey Inheritance
A Play, in Five Acts
1905
The Shawl & Prairie du Chien
1985
We're No Angels
1994
Jafsie and John Henry
Essays
1999
Oleanna
1993
Reunion & Dark Pony
1979
Bambi vs. Godzilla
On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business
2007
State and Main
The Shooting Script
2001
Goldberg Street
Short Plays and Monologues
1985
Homicide
A Screenplay
1992
School
2010
China Doll
2015
South of the Northeast Kingdom
2004
Recessional
The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch
2022
Everywhere an Oink Oink
An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood
2023
The Spanish Prisoner & The Winslow Boy
1999
Edmond
1983
The Secret Knowledge
On the Dismantling of American Culture
2011
Sexual Perversity in Chicago / The Duck Variations
1977
Henrietta
1999
The Water Engine & Mr. Happiness
1976
Writing in Restaurants
1986
Speed-the-Plow
1988
The Handle and the Hold
2013
The Wicked Son
Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews
2006
Romance
2005
House of Games
1987
Squirrels
1982
Some Freaks
1989
Keep Your Pantheon (and School)
Two Unrelated Plays
2009
On Directing Film
1991
Three War Stories
2013
American Buffalo
1975
The Anarchist
2011
True and False
Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
1997
Faustus
2004
The Old Religion
1997
The Chinaman
1999
Make-Believe Town
Essays and Remembrances
1996
The Woods
1979
November
2008
The Old Neighborhood
Three Plays
1997
