William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Playwright
1
Tracy Letts, 59
2
Julia Donaldson, 76
3
Eric Bogosian, 72
4
Sam Shepard (1943-2017)
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
August Wilson (1945-2005)
14
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)
15
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
16
Marilyn Vos Savant, 78
17
Robert Greene (1558-1592)
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
Brian Clark (1932-2021)
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
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970)
36
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
37
Noel Coward (1899-1973)
38
William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910)
39
Peter Brook (1925-2022)
40
Moss Hart (1904-1961)
41
Richard Nelson, 74
42
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
43
Humayun Ahmed (1948-2012)
44
Berlie Doherty, 81
45
Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
46
Thomas Meehan (1929-2017)
47
David-Matthew Barnes, 54
48
Author Trivia
Authors by US States