He became a successful novelist and playwright.

Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) is an American playwright and screenwriter.

Péter Nádas (born 14 October 1942) is a Hungarian writer, playwright, and essayist.

The poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1911.

The Way of the World is a play written by English playwright William Congreve.

Peter Handke ( born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist, playwright and political activist.

Wajdi al Ahdal (born 1973) is a Yemeni novelist, short story writer and playwright.

The brilliant playwright, Adrienne Kennedy, wrote a volume called People Who Led to My Plays.

John Galsworthy OM ( 14 August 1867 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright.

Marieluise Fleißer ( 23 November 1901, Ingolstadt 2 February 1974, Ingolstadt) was a German author and playwright.

George Ade (February 9, 1866 May 16, 1944) was an American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is an 1891 philosophical novel by writer and playwright Oscar Wilde.

The comedy of manners was first developed in the new comedy of the Ancient Greek playwright Menander.

Agustín García Calvo (October 15, 1926 November 1, 2012) was a Spanish philologist, philosopher, poet and playwright.

Harry Sinclair Lewis ( February 7, 1885 January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright.

A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.

James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic.

Otto Devrient (born 3 October 1838 in Berlin 23 June 1894 in Stettin) was a German actor and playwright.

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories.

And I finally came across this fantastic quote by a British playwright, William Archer Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty.

Henrik Johan Ibsen ( 20 March 1828 23 May 1906) was a major 19th century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet.

Giorgio Gaber (), byname of Giorgio Gaberscik (25 January 1939 1 January 2003), was an Italian singer, composer, actor and playwright.

Urs Widmer (May 21, 1938 April 2, 2014) was a Swiss novelist, playwright, an essayist and a short story writer.

Oscar Blumenthal or Oskar Blumenthal (13 March 1852 Berlin 24 April 1917, Berlin) was a German playwright and drama critic.

Bertolt Brecht ( born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht () 10 February 1898 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.

The great poet, translator and playwright Tsegaye Gebre Medhin died in 2006 after he moved to New York from Ethiopia in 1998.

Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre ( 21 June 1905 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.

Carrie Louise Hamilton (December 5, 1963 in New York City January 20, 2002, in Los Angeles) was an American actress, singer, and playwright.

The Swiss writer and playwright Max Frisch once dismissed technology as the art of arranging the world so that we need not experience it.

Albert Espinosa i Puig (born 5 November 1973), educated as an industrial engineer, is a screenwriter, playwright, writer, actor and director of Spanish cinema.

Playwright Eve Ensler explores our modern craving for security and why it makes us less secure. Listen for inspiring, heartbreaking stories of women making change.

Paavo Juhani Haavikko (January 25, 1931 in Helsinki October 6, 2008) was a Finnish poet and playwright, considered one of the country's most outstanding writers.

Great Polish painter Jan Matejko devoted his monumental art to the most significant historical events on Polish lands, along with the playwright, painter and poet Stanisław Wyspiański.

The first wrong Chinese was Gao Xingjian, a critical playwright, artist, and novelist, who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 2000, while living in exile in Paris.

Bernard von Brentano (born 15 October 1901 in Offenbach am Main, died 29 December 1964 in Wiesbaden) was a German writer, poet, playwright, storyteller, novelist, essayist and journalist.

This in itself may be no bad thing. But the absence of war, as the British playwright David Hare once called it, suggests that Britain s political tectonic plates have shifted.

So a piece of mine may inspire a playwright or a novelist or a scientist, and that in turn may be the seed that inspires a doctor or a philanthropist or a babysitter.

Identity Luo is confirmed to have lived in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty by the record of his contemporary, the playwright Jia Zhongming (賈仲明), who met him in 1364.

Michael Arlen ( November 16, 1895 June 23, 1956), born Dikran Kouyoumdjian, was an Armenian essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England.

However, textual evidence from the late plays indicates that Shakespeare's collaborators were not always aware of what Shakespeare had done in a previous scene, and that they were following a rough outline rather than working from an unfinished script left by a long dead playwright.

ISBN 978 0 8131 4209 8 External links William Wyler bibliography via UC Berkeley Media Resources Center In Loving Memory Of William Wyler Senses of Cinema Great Directors Critical Database The Little Foxes and Wyler's screen collaborations with playwright Lillian Hellman Margaret Tallichet and William Wyler remembered at Alabama festival The Fighting Lady William Wyler papers, Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences