page_title: David Henry Hwang
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: David Henry Hwang / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Playwright David Henry Hwang teaching a writing class in San Francisco's Fort Mason in 1979. Photograph by Nancy Wong
context_page_description: David Henry Hwang is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City.
caption: Playwright David Henry Hwang teaching a writing class in San Francisco's Fort Mason in 1979
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