William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Playwright
1
Tracy Letts, 60
2
Julia Donaldson, 76
3
Sam Shepard (1943-2017)
4
Eric Bogosian, 72
5
Rupert Holmes, 78
6
Jonathan Larson (1960-1996)
7
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
8
Richard Greenberg (1958-2025)
9
Johnathan Larson (1960-1996)
10
Willy Russell, 77
11
Slawomir Mrozek (1930-2013)
12
Grant Morrison, 65
13
Martin McDonagh, 55
14
Wole Soyinka, 91
15
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
16
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, 51
17
Robert Greene (1558-1592)
18
David Mamet, 77
19
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
20
John Osbourne (1929-1994)
21
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
22
Marilyn Vos Savant, 78
23
Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
24
Authors by Age
Authors by Country
Sky Gilbert, 72
25
Mart Crowley (1935-2020)
26
Sarah Kane (1971-1999)
27
Jeremy O. Harris, 36
28
John Patrick (1905-1995)
29
August Wilson (1945-2005)
30
Howard Ashman (1950-1991)
31
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
32
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
33
Cyrano De Bergerac (1619-1655)
34
Paul Foster (1931-2021)
35
John B. Keane (1928-2002)
36
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
37
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
38
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
39
Tom Stoppard, 88
40
Neil Simon (1927-2018)
41
David Henry Hwang, 67
42
Romulus Zachariah Linney IV (1930-2011)
43
Owen Davis (1874-1956)
44
Barney Simon (1932-1995)
45
Paula Vogel, 73
46
Elfriede Jelinek, 78
47
Kirk Lynn, 53
48
Author Trivia
Authors by US States