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David Mamet

Biography

David Mamet

David Mamet, one of the most extraordinary writers in contemporary American literature, has written 23 plays, eight collections of essays, two novels, five children's books, two books of poetry, and 18 films, including The Verdict and Wag the Dog, for which he received Academy Award nominations. State and Main is his seventh feature as a writer-director, after House of Games, Things Change, Homicide, Oleanna, The Spanish Prisoner and The Winslow Boy. Mamet has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for "Glengarry Glen Ross."

David Mamet

Books by David Mamet

by David Mamet - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

Mike Hodge --- veteran of the Great War, big shot of the Chicago Tribune, medium fry --- probably shouldn’t have fallen in love with Annie Walsh. Then again, maybe the man who killed Annie Walsh should have known better than to trifle with Mike Hodge. Mixing some of his most brilliant fictional creations with actual figures of the era and exploring questions of honor, deceit, revenge and devotion, CHICAGO --- David Mamet’s first novel in more than two decades --- is a book that combines spectacular elegance of craft with a kinetic wallop as fierce as the February wind gusting off Lake Michigan.