american male screenwriters

Gore Vidal

American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner

Arthur Miller

American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater

Larry McMurtry

American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas

Cormac McCarthy

American writer who has written ten novels, two plays, five screenplays and two short stories, spanning the Western and post-apocalyptic genres

Norman Mailer

American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor