William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Playwright
1
Tracy Letts, 60
2
Julia Donaldson, 76
3
Eric Bogosian, 72
4
Sam Shepard (1943-2017)
5
Jonathan Larson (1960-1996)
6
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
7
Rupert Holmes, 78
8
Anne Caldwell (1867-1936)
9
Johnathan Larson (1960-1996)
10
Wole Soyinka, 91
11
Willy Russell, 77
12
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
13
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
14
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, 51
15
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
16
David Mamet, 77
17
John Osbourne (1929-1994)
18
Howard Ashman (1950-1991)
19
Slawomir Mrozek (1930-2013)
20
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
21
Cyrano De Bergerac (1619-1655)
22
Marilyn Vos Savant, 79
23
Grant Morrison, 65
24
Authors by Age
Authors by Country
David-Matthew Barnes, 54
25
Neil Simon (1927-2018)
26
Ferenc Molnár (1878-1952)
27
Patrick Suskind, 76
28
Jeremy O. Harris, 36
29
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
30
John Patrick (1905-1995)
31
Paul Foster (1931-2021)
32
Martin McDonagh, 55
33
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
34
Tom Stoppard, 88
35
August Wilson (1945-2005)
36
Terrence McNally (1938-2020)
37
Suzan-Lori Parks, 62
38
Edward Moore (1712-1757)
39
Tarell Alvin McCraney, 44
40
Paula Vogel, 73
41
Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)
42
Donald Ogden Stewart (1894-1980)
43
Hannah Cowley (1743-1809)
44
Richard Greenberg (1958-2025)
45
Mark O'Donnell (1954-2012)
46
Brian Clark (1932-2021)
47
Robert Greene (1558-1592)
48
Author Trivia
Authors by US States
