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    David Mamet

    DAVID MAMET is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, as well as a director, novelist, poet, and essayist. He has written the screenplays for more than twenty films, including Heist, Spartan, House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow Boy, Wag the Dog, and the Oscar-nominated The Verdict. His more than twenty plays include Oleanna, The Cryptogram, Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and the Pulitzer Prizewinning Glengarry Glen Ross. Born in Chicago in 1947, Mamet has taught at the Yale School of Drama, New York University, and Goddard College, and is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company.
    Three Uses of the Knife
    Three Uses of the Knife
    On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
    David Mamet
    9780375704239
    $15.00 US
    Paperback
    Jun 13, 2000
    Vintage
    Grades AP/IB
    True and False
    True and False
    Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
    David Mamet
    9780679772644
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Feb 22, 1999
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Oleanna
    Oleanna
    A Play
    David Mamet
    9780679745365
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    May 04, 1993
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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    Three Uses of the Knife
    Three Uses of the Knife
    On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
    David Mamet
    9780375704239
    $15.00 US
    Paperback
    Jun 13, 2000
    Vintage
    Grades AP/IB
    True and False
    True and False
    Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
    David Mamet
    9780679772644
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Feb 22, 1999
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Oleanna
    Oleanna
    A Play
    David Mamet
    9780679745365
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    May 04, 1993
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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