Tracy Letts is the author of ten plays, which include Killer Joe (1993), Bug (1996), Superior Donuts (2008), and The Minutes (2017).
August: Osage County fits into a tradition of American plays that grapple with dysfunctional families. This includes plays like Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie (1944), Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956), Sam Shepard's Buried Child (1978), and Stephen Karam's The Humans (2015).