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David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director. Best known as a playwright, Mamet won a Pulitzer Prize and received a Tony nomination for Glengarry Glen Ross . He also received a Tony nomination for Speed-the-Plow . As a screenwriter, he received Oscar... nominations for The Verdict and Wag the Dog . Mamet's books include: The Old Religion , a novel about the lynching of Leo Frank; Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy , a Torah commentary with Rabbi Lawrence Kushner; The Wicked Son , a study of Jewish self-hatred and antisemitism; and Bambi vs. Godzilla, a commentary on the movie business. Mamet was born in 1947 in Chicago to Jewish parents, Lenore June , a teacher, and Bernard Morris Mamet, an attorney. One of his first jobs was as a busboy at Chicago's The Second City. He was educated at the progressive Francis W. Parker School and at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.
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