His first play, The Smug Citizen, garnered much attention for depicting the worker as superior to the intellectual, but he is most famous for his second play.  
This author's early travails contributed to his pseudonym, which means "the bitter one."  Some of his works helped to found the socialist realism movement, including Queer People, Enemies, and The Last One.  His first play, The Smug Citizen, garnered much attention for depicting the worker as superior to the intellectual, but he is most famous for his second play.  FTP, identify this Russian playwright of The Lower Depths.
This author's early travails contributed to his pseudonym, which means "the bitter one."  
Maxim Gorky