William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Playwright
1
Tracy Letts, 59
2
Julia Donaldson, 76
3
Sam Shepard (1943-2017)
4
Eric Bogosian, 72
5
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
6
Rupert Holmes, 78
7
Willy Russell, 77
8
Jonathan Larson (1960-1996)
9
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
10
Johnathan Larson (1960-1996)
11
Howard Ashman (1950-1991)
12
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
13
Robert Greene (1558-1592)
14
August Wilson (1945-2005)
15
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)
16
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
17
Marilyn Vos Savant, 78
18
Edward Moore (1712-1757)
19
David Mamet, 77
20
Slawomir Mrozek (1930-2013)
21
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, 51
22
Wole Soyinka, 90
23
Jun Lana, 52
24
Authors by Age
Authors by Country
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
25
Jonathan Sayer, 36
26
Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959)
27
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
28
Wendy Wasserstein (1950-2006)
29
Neil Simon (1927-2018)
30
David Garrick (1717-1779)
31
Cyrano De Bergerac (1619-1655)
32
John Patrick (1905-1995)
33
Owen Davis (1874-1956)
34
Tom Stoppard, 87
35
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
36
Noel Coward (1899-1973)
37
Jason Miller (1939-2001)
38
William Inge (1913-1973)
39
William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910)
40
Peter Brook (1925-2022)
41
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
42
Richard Nelson, 74
43
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
44
George Middleton (1880-1967)
45
Adam Rapp, 56
46
Brian Clark (1932-2021)
47
Humayun Ahmed (1948-2012)
48
Author Trivia
Authors by US States
