Literary Library

George Furth

December 14, 1932 - August 11, 2008American librettist, playwright and actorAuthor of "Company" (for which he won a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Awa...

Marc Connelly

December 13, 1890 - December 21, 1980American playwright, director, producer, drama teacher, performer and lyricistAuthor of "The Green Pastures" ...

Robert Lepage

December 12, 1957 - Canadian playwright, actor, film director and stage directorAuthor of "The Seven Streams of the River Ota", "The Far Side of t...

John Osborne

December 12, 1924 - December 24, 1994English playwright, screenwriter and actorAuthor of "Look Back in Anger" (for which he won the New York Drama ...

Naguib Mahfouz

December 11, 1911 - August 30, 2006 Egyptian novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, newspaper columnist, playwright and civil servant Author ...

Joe Masteroff

December 11, 1919 - September 28, 2018American playwrightAuthor of "The Warm Peninsula", "She Loves Me" (for which he was nominated for a Tony Awar...

Alfred De Musset

December 11, 1810 - May 2, 1857French dramatist, poet and novelistAuthor of the plays "The Moods of Marianne", "Lorenzaccio" and "The Story of a W...

Nelly Sachs

December 10, 1891 - May 12, 1970German-Swedish (Jewish) poet and playwright Author of "Legends and Tales", "Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden I...

Maria Benitez

December 10, 1783 - April 18, 1873 or 1875 (?)Puerto-Rican poet and playwrightAuthor of poems including "The Nymph of Puerto Rico", "The Flower an...

Helen Oyeyemi

December 10, 1984 - Nigerian-born English novelist, short story writer and playwrightAuthor of "The Icarus Girl", "What is Not Yours is Not Yours"...

Clarice Lispector

December 10, 1920 - December 9, 1977Ukranian-born Brazilian-Jewish novelist, short story writer and playwrightAuthor of "Near to the Wild Heart", ...

Eileen Myles

December 9, 1949 - American poet and writer of fiction, nonfiction, libretti and playsAuthor of "Chelsea Girls", "The Importance of Being Iceland"...