David Mamet

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born

November 30, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

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male

website

http://davidmamet.com/

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama

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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).

His 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 antisemi...more

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Books by David Mamet

Average rating: 3.74 · 15,331 ratings · 971 reviews · 120 distinct works

	Glengarry Glen Ross 3.95 avg rating — 3,343 ratings — published 1984 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Oleanna 3.62 avg rating — 1,877 ratings — published 1993 — 11 editions	My rating:
	American Buffalo 3.66 avg rating — 972 ratings — published 1975 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Sexual Perversity in Chicago & The Duck Variations 3.56 avg rating — 697 ratings — published 1977 — 4 editions	My rating:
	True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor 3.88 avg rating — 634 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	On Directing Film 3.81 avg rating — 521 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Speed-the-Plow 3.56 avg rating — 537 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama 3.89 avg rating — 391 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business 3.42 avg rating — 448 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Writing in Restaurants: Essays and Prose 3.71 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions	My rating:

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Series by David Mamet

Collected Plays (4 books)
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Quotes by David Mamet

“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”
― David Mamet, Boston Marriage

tags: dessert , eating , food , humor , pie , stress

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“It's only words... unless they're true.”
― David Mamet

tags: aphorism , language , truth

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“You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.”
― David Mamet

tags: inspirational , shame , survival

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