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Feb 5, 2015 · 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 Wilson grew up.
Jun 8, 2018 · August Wilson 1945 –. Playwright. Grew Up Poor in Pittsburgh. Poetry Writing an Early Focus. On Broadway “ A Straggling Playwright ” Selected writings. Sources. Called “ one of the most important voices in the American theater today ” by Mervyn Rothstein in the New York Times, August Wilson has written a string of acclaimed plays since his Ma Rainey ’ s Black Bottom first excited ...
Aug 3, 2023 · In this excerpt from “August Wilson: A Life,” the playwright, on the cusp of stardom, is polishing off his latest play, “Fences,” at the O’Neill writers’ conference. August Wilson in ...
Oct 3, 2005 · Mr. Wilson was born Frederick August Kittel on April 27, 1945, in Pittsburgh. He was named for his father, a white German immigrant who worked as a baker, drank too much and had a fiery ...
Aug 16, 2023 · August Wilson, a two-time Pulitzer winner who ranks among America’s greatest playwrights, died in October 2005 at the age of 60. Though by the time of his death he had completed his American Century Cycle (a.k.a. the Century Cycle or the Pittsburgh Cycle), with one play for each decade of the 20th century, there lingered a sense that not only ...
Dec 3, 2020 · To accompany this essay, the Baltimore-based artist Jerrell Gibbs painted “Portrait of August Wilson” (2020), exclusively for T. Courtesy of Mariane Ibrahim. Photo by Joseph Hyde. IN THE WOODS ...
Feb 10, 2021 · The most contemporary of all August Wilson’s work, Radio Golf is the final play in his unprecedented ten-play cycle. Completed shortly after his death in 2005, this bittersweet drama of assimilation and alienation traces the forces of change on a neighborhood and its people caught between history and the 21st century.
