The most famous early 20th century American playwright is?

20th Century European and American Playwrights

• Luigi PiranDELLo (Italian; 1867-1936) (in Italian)
• Somerset Maugham (English; 1874-1965)
  • Of Human Bondage
• Thornton Wilder (American; 1867-1957)
  • Wilder filmography
• Sean O'Casey (Irish; 1884-1964)
• Eugene O'Neill (American; 1888-1953)
• Maxwell Anderson (American; 1888-1959)
• Bertolt Brecht (German; 1891-1956)
  • Brecht biographical information
• Jean Cocteau (French; 1892-1963)
• Elmer Rice (American; 1892-1967)
• Antonin Artaud (French; 1896-1948)
• Philip Barry (American; 1896-1949)
• Federico García Lorca (Spanish; 1899-1936)
• Noel Coward (English; 1899-1973)
• Christopher Isherwood (English; 1904-1986)
• Lillian Hellman (American; 1905-1984)
  • Lillian Hellman's FBI file
• Jean Paul Sartre (French; 1905-1980)
• Samuel Beckett (French; 1906-1989)
• Clifford Odets (American; 1906-1963)
• Jean Anouilh (French; 1910-1987)
• Tennessee Williams (American; 1911-1983)
• Eugène Ionesco (French; 1912-1994)
• William Inge (American; 1913-1973)
  • William Inge Collection at Pittsburg State University (Kansas) Library
• Dylan Thomas (Welsh; 1914-1953)
  • Dylan Thomas Web links
• Arthur Miller (American; 1916- )
• Peter Weiss (German; 1916- )
• Neil Simon (American; 1927- )
• Edward Albee (American; 1928- )
• John Osborne (English; 1929-1994)
• Harold Pinter (English; 1930- )
• Václav Havel (Czech; 1936- )
• Tom Stoppard (English; 1937- )
• Sam Shepard (American; 1943- )
  • Sam Shepard drama biographical sketch
• August Wilson (American; 1945- )
• David Mamet (American; 1947- )
  • Mamet filmography
• David Hare (English; 1947- )
• Tony Kushner