William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Playwright
1
Julia Donaldson, 77
2
Tracy Letts, 60
3
Eric Bogosian, 72
4
Sam Shepard (1943-2017)
5
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961)
6
Alexander Kluge (1932-2026)
7
Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
8
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
9
Wole Soyinka, 91
10
Gary Mitchell, 60
11
Jonathan Larson (1960-1996)
12
Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959)
13
Romulus Zachariah Linney IV (1930-2011)
14
Robert Greene (1558-1592)
15
Johnathan Larson (1960-1996)
16
Theodor Herzl (1860-1904)
17
Rupert Holmes, 79
18
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
19
Anne Caldwell (1867-1936)
20
Authors by Age
Authors by Country
Marilyn Vos Savant, 79
21
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
22
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
23
Paula Vogel, 74
24
Willy Russell, 78
25
José Rivera, 71
26
Eve Ensler, 72
27
Howard Ashman (1950-1991)
28
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
29
August Wilson (1945-2005)
30
Saki (1870-1916)
31
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
32
Peter Brook (1925-2022)
33
Ashfaq Ahmed (1925-2004)
34
Jeremy O. Harris, 36
35
Barney Simon (1932-1995)
36
Maude Fulton (1881-1950)
37
Jonathan Marc Sherman, 57
38
Willy Holtzman, 74
39
Sarah Kane (1971-1999)
40
Alan Melville (1910-1983)
41
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
42
Richard Nelson, 75
43
Grant Morrison, 66
44
Tom Stoppard (1937-2025)
45
David-Matthew Barnes, 55
46
Noel Coward (1899-1973)
47
Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)
48
Author Trivia
Authors by US States
