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Jan 28, 2015 · August Wilson (1945 – 2005) was an award-winning American playwright whose work illuminated the joys and struggles of the African-American experience in the United States during the 20th...
Aug 16, 2023 · Tweet. Email. By Nathaniel G. Nesmith. Read our accompanying interview with biographer Patti Hartigan here. August Wilson, a two-time Pulitzer winner who ranks among America’s greatest playwrights, died in October 2005 at the age of 60.
Feb 5, 2015 · Photo: The Yale Repertory Theatre. August Wilson’s seminal cycle of 10 plays covers African-American history in the 20th century, with all but one set in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, where ...
Aug 3, 2023 · August Wilson in 2005. He once called the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center a place where writers developing new work “can fail and your life won’t disappear.” Sara Krulwich/The New York Times....
The most accomplished of all African American dramatists in the last half of the 20th century, August Wilson, a high-school dropout and Black Power activist in the 1960s, opened his first major play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, on Broadway in 1984 with great critical and commercial success.
Aug 10, 2023 · David Smith in Washington. Thu 10 Aug 2023 11.04 EDT. T he host was Bill Moyers, former White House press secretary under Lyndon Johnson. The guest was August Wilson, one of the great...
Apr 8, 2001 · Wilson gave himself a mission: to continue to chronicle, decade by decade, the “dazed and dazzling” rapport of African-Americans with the twentieth century. “King Hedley II” is set in the ...
