Decades of Modern American Drama

Brenda Murphy is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus at the University of Connecticut, USA. Julia Listengarten is Professor of Theatre and Coordinator of Graduate Studies at the University of Central Florida, USA.

Volume 1: Playwriting in the 1930s, by Anne Fletcher (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA)
Clifford Odets, by Dr. Christopher J. Herr; Lillian Hellman, by Anne Fletcher; Langston Hughes, by Adrienne Macki Braconi; Gertrude Stein, by Laura Schultz

Volume 2: Playwriting in the 1940s, by Felicia Hardison Londré, (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)
Eugene O'Neill, by Zander Brietzke; Tennessee Williams, by Thomas Keith; Arthur Miller by Valleri Robinson; Thornton Wilder, by Felicia Hardison Londré

Volume 3: Playwriting in the 1950s, by Susan C. W. Abbotson (Rhode Island College, Providence, USA)
William Inge, by Susan C. W. Abbotson; Stephen Sondheim, by Stuart Hecht; Alice Childress, by Soyica Diggs-Colbert; Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee, by Alan Woods

Volume 4: Playwriting in the 1960s, by Mike Sell (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Edward Albee, by Helen Shaw; Amiri Baraka, by Susan Stone-Lawrence; Adrienne Kennedy, by Lenora Inez Brown; Jean-Claude Van Itallie, by Timothy Youker

Volume 5: Playwriting in the 1970s, by Michael Vanden Heuvel (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
David Rabe, by Jon Dietrick; Sam Shepard by Mike Vanden Heuvel; Ntozake Shange by Neal A. Lester; Richard Foreman by Geoffrey King and Craig Werner

Volume 6: Playwriting in the 1980s, by Sandra G. Shannon (Howard University, Washington, USA)
David Mamet, by Nelson Pressley; David Henry Hwang, by William C. Boles; Maria Irene Fornes, by Gwendolyn Alker; August Wilson, by Sandra Shannon

Volume 7: Playwriting in the 1990s, by Cheryl Black (University of Missouri, Columbia, USA) and Sharon Friedman (Gallatin School, New York University, USA)
Tony Kushner, by James Fisher; Paula Vogel, by Joanna Mansbridge; Suzan-Lori Parks, by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. ; Terrence McNally, by John M. Clum

Volume 8: Playwriting 2000-2009, by Julia Listengarten (University of Central Florida, USA) and Cindy Rosenthal (Hofstra University, New York, USA)
Charles Mee, by Scott T. Cummings; Lynn Nottage, by Cindy Rosenthal; Theresa Rebeck, by Dorothy Chansky; Sarah Ruhl, by Wendy Arons