Playwrights of the United States theatre, whose twentieth and twenty-first century plays of family, race, memory and social conscience made up the American stage canon and won the Pulitzer Prize and other major awards. The group includes the playwrights of Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, the Pittsburgh Cycle and Topdog and Underdog, who set American family and community life on stage and whose plays are staged in theatres around the world.
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Wikipedia: Arthur Miller
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Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915, February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist in 20th-century American theater.
Wikipedia: Tennessee Williams
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Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911, February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter.
August Wilson (Wikipedia)
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August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945, October 2, 2005) was an American playwright.
Wikipedia: Suzan-Lori Parks
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Suzan-Lori Parks (born May 10, 1963) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist.
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