William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Playwright
1
Tracy Letts, 60
2
Julia Donaldson, 77
3
Eric Bogosian, 72
4
Sam Shepard (1943-2017)
5
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
6
Tony Harrison (1937-2025)
7
Jonathan Larson (1960-1996)
8
Willy Russell, 78
9
Annie Baker, 44
10
Howard Ashman (1950-1991)
11
Marilyn Vos Savant, 79
12
Gary Mitchell, 60
13
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
14
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
15
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
16
Johnathan Larson (1960-1996)
17
Rupert Holmes, 78
18
Neil Simon (1927-2018)
19
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
20
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
21
Wole Soyinka, 91
22
Robert Greene (1558-1592)
23
John Patrick (1905-1995)
24
Authors by Age
Authors by Country
Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
25
Barney Simon (1932-1995)
26
Thomas Meehan (1929-2017)
27
Martin McDonagh, 55
28
Cyrano De Bergerac (1619-1655)
29
John Byrne (1940-2023)
30
Romulus Zachariah Linney IV (1930-2011)
31
Grant Morrison, 65
32
Tom Stoppard, 88
33
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, 51
34
William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910)
35
August Wilson (1945-2005)
36
Brian Friel (1929-2015)
37
Kirk Lynn, 53
38
Maggie Keenan-Bolger, 41
39
Gcina Mhlophe, 66
40
Alan Ayckbourn, 86
41
Brian Clark (1932-2021)
42
George Middleton (1880-1967)
43
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
44
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)
45
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
46
Slawomir Mrozek (1930-2013)
47
Suzan-Lori Parks, 62
48
Author Trivia
Authors by US States
