David Mamet
David Alan Mamet is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. His works are known for their clever, terse, sometimes vulgar dialogue and arcane stylized phrasing, as well as for their exploration of masculinity. Mamet received Tony Award nominations for Glengarry Glen Ros (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988), as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross. As a screenwriter, he received Oscar nominations for The Verdict (1982) and Wag the Dog (1997). ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mamet
Works (50)

On directing film

True and False

Oleanna

3 uses of the knife

Glengarry Glen Ross

American Buffalo

Whisky galore

Speed-the-plow

The secret knowledge

Sexual perversity in Chicago

Race

A life in the theatre

Bambi v. Godzilla

Writing in restaurants

Boston marriage

Some freaks

The old neighborhood

Romance

Make-believe town

Edmond

Theatre

Goldberg Street

The cryptogram

Chicago: A Novel

The Chinaman

Glengarry Glen Ross

We're no angels

No one will be immune

Three Children's Plays

Things change

Wilson

The Old Religion

The cherry orchard

Warm and cold

Reunion ; Dark pony

Glengarry Glen Ross

Oh Hell

The Village

Fly like an eagle and other stories

A whore's profession

Keep your pantheon (and School)

A life with no joy in it, and other plays and pieces

Bar Mitzvah

Lakeboat

Passover

The Voysey inheritance

The shawl ; and, Prairie du Chien

The Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon '84

Three War Stories

The penitent