David Mamet ( Playwright ) plays by David Mamet include: The Penitent, China Doll, The Anarchist, Race, Keep Your Pantheon, School, November, Romance , Boston Marriage , Faustus , Oleanna , Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award), American Buffalo , The Old Neighborhood , A Life in the Theatre , Speed-the-Plow , Edmond , Lakeboat , The Water Engine , The Woods , Sexual Perversity in Chicago , Reunion and The Cryptogram (1995 Obie Award). His translations and adaptations include: Faustus and Red River by Pierre Laville; and The Cherry Orchard , Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov. His films include: The Postman Always Rings Twice , The Verdict , The Untouchables , House of Games (writer/director), Oleanna (writer/director), Homicide (writer/director), The Spanish Prisoner (writer/ director), Heist (writer/director), Spartan (writer/director) and Redbelt (writer/director). Mr. Mamet is also the author of: Warm and Cold , a book for children with drawings by Donald Sultan, and two other children's books, Passover and The Duck and the Goat ; Writing in Restaurants , Some Freaks , and Make-Believe Town , three volumes of essays; The Hero Pony and The China Man , a book of poems; Three Children's Plays , On Directing Film , The Cabin , and the novels The Village , The Old Religion and Wilson . His other books include the acting books, True & False and Three Uses of the Knife, Bambi vs. Godzilla, The Secret Knowledge, The Wicked Son, Theatre, and Three War Stories .