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   Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel Jr. in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the fourth of six children. His father, Frederick August Kittel Sr., was a Sudeten German immigrant, who was a baker/pastry cook. His mother, Daisy Wilson, was an African-American woman from North Carolina who cleaned homes for a living. [5] .

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   Childhood & Early Life. He was born as Frederick August Kittel, Jr. in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Frederick August Kittel, Sr., a pastry chef and baker and Daisy Wilson, a cleaning woman of African descent. His childhood was rather humble.

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   2 days ago · Together with five siblings, he was raised by his mother, Daisy Wilson, after his father, Frederick August Kittel, left her and their children. Daisy Wilson later remarried, and in 1958 the family moved to a suburb of Pittsburgh.

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   It's with whom Daisy would have several children. How much did August Wilson, then Frederick August, know about his father? Patti Hartigan: He was an absent presence in the home. He was not particularly well regarded. August Wilson looked to a boxer who lived across the street named Charley Burley as a surrogate father.

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   Born Frederick August Kittel, Jr in Pittsburgh in 1945, as the fourth of seven children, August Wilson grew up in the impoverished Bedford Avenue area of the city. The family moved from there when his mother re-married and Wilson attended school; he dropped out at 16 and focussed on working in menial jobs while fostering his burgeoning love of ...

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   Dec 14, 2020 · Born in Pittsburgh in 1945 to a white father and African American mother, Wilson developed a love of literature at an early age but dropped out of high school and briefly served in the U.S. Army...

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   Who was August Wilson?

   • August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". [ 1]

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   Where does August Wilson live?

   • Photograph by Dana Lixenberg He’s been here and gone. The playwright August Wilson lives in a leafy, genteel part of Seattle intended by the city’s founding fathers to be the site of the state capitol, and so named Capitol Hill.

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   What did August Wilson do before he died?

   • In the years after Wilson's death the 10-play cycle has been referred to as The August Wilson Century Cycle[ 27] and as The American Century Cycle. [ 28] Two years before his death in 2005, Wilson wrote and performed an unpublished one-man play entitled How I Learned What I Learned about the power of art and the power of possibility.

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   Who were Wilson's parents?

   • His mother was Black, his father white, and his stepfather, David Bedford, Black. The Hill District was mostly Black, and the suburb, Hazelwood, was predominately white. Wilson and his family were the target of racial threats in Hazelwood, and he quit school at age 15 after being accused of having plagiarized a paper.

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    Apr 8, 2001 · He moved here in 1994, with Constanza Romero, a Colombian-born costume designer who is now his third wife, and they share a rambling turn-of-the-century house with Azula, their three-year-old...