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.
“Sharp, savvy. . . . Icily hilarious. . . . Mr. Mamet writes with insight, idiosyncrasy and a Godzillian imperviousness to opposition.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times“Winningly pugnacious. . . . [Bambi vs. Godzilla] is funny and angry and intemperate and passionate enough to tell the truth about movies.” —San Francisco Chronicle“This is a book infused with love – the sweet, helpless love Mamet has for film, and the communal process that makes it.” —Los Angeles Times“Playful . . . deft. . . . Mamet the dramatist has developed a career as a prolific philosophical essayist.” —Chicago Sun-Times
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