Famous playwrights
person who writes plays
1,326 people
Dylan Thomas
1914
– 1953
· Age 39
Deceased
Frances Hodgson Burnett
1849
– 1924
· Age 74
Deceased
William Saroyan
1908
– 1981
· Age 72
Deceased
Paul Claudel
1868
– 1955
· Age 86
Deceased
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
1651
– 1695
· Age 43
Deceased
Max Frisch
1911
– 1991
· Age 79
Deceased
Jon Fosse
1959
· Age 66
Alive
Yevgeny Zamyatin
1884
– 1937
· Age 53
Deceased
Cormac McCarthy
1933
– 2023
· Age 89
Deceased
Kōbō Abe
1924
– 1993
· Age 68
Deceased
L. Frank Baum
1856
– 1919
· Age 62
Deceased
Ugo Foscolo
1778
– 1827
· Age 49
Deceased
Benito Pérez Galdós
1843
– 1920
· Age 76
Deceased
Upton Sinclair
1878
– 1968
· Age 90
Deceased
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
1760
– 1836
· Age 76
Deceased
Ennius
Georg Büchner
1813
– 1837
· Age 23
Deceased
Charles Richet
1850
– 1935
· Age 85
Deceased
Daphne du Maurier
1907
– 1989
· Age 81
Deceased
Karl Kraus
1874
– 1936
· Age 62
Deceased
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1803
– 1873
· Age 69
Deceased
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
1874
– 1929
· Age 55
Deceased
Erich Kästner
1899
– 1974
· Age 75
Deceased
Sacha Guitry
1885
– 1957
· Age 72
Deceased
Boris Vian
1920
– 1959
· Age 39
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q214917