Authors

American motion-picture director, screenwriter, actor, and author, best known for his bittersweet comic films containing elements of parody, slapstick, and the absurd. He is also known as a sympathetic director for women, writing strong and well-defined characters for them. Much of Allen’s comic material derives from his urban Jewish middle-class…

Mr. Udoff is a playwright and screenwriter. The NY Times said of his A GUN PLAY, directed by Paul Weidner, which premiered at The Hartford Stage Company: “Mr. Udoff is a discovery. It is clear he has a comic vision, verbal facility and a contemporary consciousness.” He has twice been…

Yukio Mishima was the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka (1925– 1970), a Japanese author, poet and playwright, also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku. Mishima was a disciplined and versatile writer. He wrote not only novels, popular serial novellas, short stories and literary essays, but also highly acclaimed plays…

Belgium playwright

Yves Henri Michel Navarre, French novelist and playwright, was born 24 September 1940 in Condom, Gascony, France. He earned degrees in Spanish, English, and modern literature from the Universite de Lille III in 1961 and 1964 and attended Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord in 1964. He began submitting…