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1. www.latimes.com › entertainment-arts › booksReview: Patti Hartigan's biography 'August Wilson: A Life ...

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   Aug 11, 2023 · Patti Hartigan’s “ August Wilson: A Life,” an invaluable and highly absorbing new biography, traces Wilson’s groundbreaking trajectory from his penurious beginnings to his death at age 60 in...

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   • Occupation: Theater Critic

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3. www.nytimes.com › 2023/08/07 › booksBook Review: ‘August Wilson: A Life,’ by Patti Hartigan - The ...

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   Aug 7, 2023 · Wilson, who died in 2005, spent so much time lingering in diners that “Writing in Restaurants” is a plausible alternative subtitle for Hartigan’s “August Wilson: A Life.”

4. www.americamagazine.org › arts-culture › 2023/10/12Review: August Wilson, a playwright of multitudes | America ...

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   Oct 12, 2023 · In 'August Wilson: A Life,' an excellent new biography by Patti Hartigan, we read of the winding path that led Wilson to his ascendance, then delves into the tumults and triumphs of his two...

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6. www.amazon.com › August-Wilson-Life-Patti-HartiganAugust Wilson: A Life Hardcover – August 15, 2023 - amazon.com

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   Aug 15, 2023 · Hardcover – August 15, 2023. The first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American playwright of the late 20th century, by a theater critic who knew him. August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays celebrating African American life in the 20th century, one play for each decade.

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   Aug 15, 2023 · The first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American playwright of the late 20th century, by a theater critic who knew him. August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays celebrating African American life in the 20th century, one play for each decade.

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   • Author: Patti Hartigan

8. www.nytimes.com › 2023/08/03 › theaterThe Playwright Who Changed the Face of American Theater

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   Aug 3, 2023 · The story of that summer is recounted here in this excerpt from “August Wilson: A Life,” an upcoming biography by Patti Hartigan, a former theater critic for The Boston Globe.

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   How old was August Wilson when he died?

   • Patti Hartigan’s “ August Wilson: A Life ,” an invaluable and highly absorbing new biography, traces Wilson’s groundbreaking trajectory from his penurious beginnings to his death at age 60 in 2005, which made the front pages of newspapers around the nation.

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   Who is August Wilson?

   • 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 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.”

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   What is Patti Hartigan's new biography of August Wilson about?

   • Patti Hartigan’s new biography of August Wilson is highly informative and fluid for an unauthorized work. Hartigan’s biography is at its best in chronicling the artistic process that reshaped not only Wilson as a dramatist but also the producing structures of the American theater.

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   Did August Wilson write in restaurants?

   • August Wilson, who died in 2005, spent so much time lingering in diners that 'Writing in Restaurants' is a plausible alternative subtitle for Hartigan’s 'August Wilson: A Life'. Wilson, a large, bearded man often in tweeds and a pageboy cap, would sit in the back of diners with a cup of coffee and an overflowing ashtray.

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   Who was Robert Wilson and what was his occupation?

   • Robert Wilson was an autodidact with a darting curiosity born in Pittsburgh in 1945 to a single Black mother who raised him and his siblings largely on welfare checks. He mined the city, especially its historically African American Hill District, as if it were a coal seam, tapping a rich vein of experiences that would shape his life and work.

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   Who is Frederick August Kittel?

   • It wasn’t easy for Frederick August Kittel Jr., a high school dropout from Pittsburgh’s Hill District, to transform himself into August Wilson, the venerable playwright whose 10-play cycle examining 20th century Black life in America earned him a seat in the pantheon beside Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee.

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10. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com › bookAugust Wilson: A Life - Washington Independent Review of Books

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    Aug 7, 2023 · Yet as Patti Hartigan writes — gloriously — in August Wilson: A Life, the first major biography of the man, Wilson’s genius was singular and his work universal, winning him two Pulitzer Prizes and 29 Tony Awards.