Martin Esslin
British dramatist and journalist
Martin Julius Esslin OBE was a Hungarian-born British producer, dramatist, journalist, adaptor and translator, critic, academic scholar and professor of drama, known for coining the term "theatre of the absurd" in his 1961 book The Theatre of the... Wikipedia
Born: June 6, 1918, Budapest, Hungary
Died: February 24, 2002 (age 83 years), London, United Kingdom
Spouse: Renate Gerstenberg (m. 1947–2002)
Education: University of Vienna; Reinhardt Seminar
Notable work: The Theatre of the Absurd