10 Interesting Fact About Famous playwrights and their plays

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• William Shakespeare is the most famous drama writer in the world and has written 38 dramas in his life.
• George Bernard Shaw, author of Pygmalion, won Nobel Literature in 1925.
• Arthur Miller, author of Death of a Salesman, was married to Marilyn Monroe for five years.
• Tennessee Williams, Author A Streetcar Named Desire, is a drug addict and alcohol.
• Oscar Wilde, author of The Importance of Being Earnest, was once jailed for being accused of carrying out homosexual actions.
• Henrik Ibsen, author of A Dolls House, was once the Chairperson of the Norwegian Liberal Party.
• August Wilson, author of Fences, is the first black drama writer to win Pulitzer Prize for drama.
• Lorraine Hansberry, Author A Raisin in The Sun, is the first black woman to write a broadway drama.
• Edward Albee, author of Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Was once adopted by a rich family in the United States.
• Samuel Beckett, writer Waiting for Godot, once worked as a member of the French resistance movement during World War II.